Re: setting up Apache for CGI
John Reinke wrote:
>
> Perhaps this is slightly off-topic, but this might still come under the
> "newbie" category.
>
> I am trying to get Apache to allow CGI scripts from user cgi-bin
> directories. I've looked at the Web HOWTO, and at apache.org for help, but
> perhaps my question is too easy.
>
> Basically, I'm trying to get it set up so users have a .public_html
> directory in their home directory, and cgi-bin within that. I think I have
> that set up correctly, because if I don't name a CGI *.cgi, it will output
> the cgi script source in the browser.
This can be changed by adding
AddHandler cgi-script .pl
to /etc/apache/srm.conf .. add any additional extensions you want to it
and restart apache.
>Otherwise, the error (500) I always
> get is:
>
> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
> to complete your request.
>
> The logs say "Premature end of script headers", but I'm positive the script
> is correctly formatted , since I've used it in other places. It has the two
> newlines following the content-type. I've tried both a perl script and a
> shell script. Any suggestions?
try running the script at the command line see what happens, thats
usually a good way to diagnose things. also what script is it ? can you
post it somewhere so i can take a look at it. Also if you have suexec
turned on in apache(for debian looks like default is off) you can turn
it off to see if that helps, i had major probs with suexec in the past.
nate
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