Perl scripts (*.pl, *.cgi files) can be executed from any location
within your public_html directory. While there are a few relatively
minor potential benefits in storing Perl scripts within the cgi-bin
directory doing so is strictly optional.
Possible benefits of storing Perl scripts in cgi-bin:
- As /cgi-bin is a common default location used to store Perl scripts
many free scripts will be setup to run in that path by default;
