Re: CGI Error
On 07-Dec-97 Paul Miller wrote:
>hmmm... that means something is wrong with Apache, suEXEC, or Perl 5.004.
>Do I need any special perl libs/files for cgi?
The code you showed doesn't need anything but perl. If the command "whence perl"
shows /usr/bin/perl, and dselect is working for you (or anyother perl script)
you should be fine. I think I'd uninstall and re-install perl were I you.
>
>I've been able to run files which use sh (bash) and awk fine.. so I think
>there is something wrong w/ perl.
>
>Thanks
>Paul
>
>On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Troy wrote:
>
>> It works (as is) on my machine. I have attched the _exact_ file I
>> ran.
>>
>> I am using apache, I put this file in the cgi-bin directory with
>> permissions of 755
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>> troy
>>
>> Paul Miller wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Troy wrote:
>> >
>> > > Paul Miller wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > ***
>> > > > Internal Server Error
>> > > > This is the top line of my input:
>> > > >
>> > > > #! /usr/bin/perl
>> > >
>> > > If this is exact, it won't work. There can't be a space between the
>> > > ! and the path.
>> > >
>> > > try:
>> > >
>> > > #!/usr/bin/perl
>> > >
>> > > If this is the way it looks, it should work. Try just running the
>> > > script at the command line and see what the error is (don't type
>> > > perl -c <scriptname>, just <scriptname>)
>> >
>> > Here is the script. It runs fine at the command line, but Apache doesn't
>> > like it.. (I didn't write this script - I don't know perl)..
>> >
>> > ---
>> > #!/usr/bin/perl
>> > read(STDIN,$temp,$ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
>> > @pairs=split(/&/,$temp);
>> > foreach $item(@pairs)
>> > {
>> > ($key,$content)=split(/=/,$item,2);
>> > $content=~tr/+/ /;
>> > $content=~s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1))/ge;
>> > $fields{$key}=$content;
>> > }
>> > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
>> > print "<HTML>\n";
>> > print "<BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF>\n";
>> > print "<CENTER>\n";
>> > print "THANK YOU<BR>\n";
>> > print "$fields{fname} $fields{lname}</BR>";
>> > print "I will write<BR>\n";
>> > print "you at<BR>\n";
>> > print "$fields{email}<BR>\n";
>> > print "</CENTER>\n";
>> > print "</BODY></HTML>";
>> > ---
>> >
>> > Here is something I found in the error.log
>> >
>> > error.log: "[error] Premature end of script headers"
>> >
>> > (before I was only looking in the cgi.log, which didn't give any errors)
>> >
>> > any ideas?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Paul
>
>
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