Re: can't exec some CGI scripts
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote:
I can execute the CGI scripts from the command line, when I use:
$ perl newspro.cgi
Also, below is a sample of the errors I get in my Apache error_log file
when I run the scripts from a web browser with the #!/usr/bin/perl -w
option. BTW, I get these types of errors no matter which script I try to
run.
[Tue Feb 20 14:58:46 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.17 (Unix) configured --
resuming normal operations
Name "main::SilentBuild" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line 969.
Name "main::nplang_12Hour" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line 1498.
Name "main::nplangversion" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line 238.
Name "main::glossaryon" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line 744.
Name "main::EnableDailyArchiving" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line 1575.
Name "main::nplibBuild" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line 235.
Name "main::nplang_DateFormat" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin n/newspro/newspro.cgi line 1501.
Name "main::JustLoadSubs" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line 113.
Name "main::ChangedItems" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line 1227.
Name "main::npconfigversion" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line 232.
Name "main::FormFieldsModifySize" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line 1133.
Name "main::ArcHtmlExt" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line 800.
Name "main::newtime" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line 817.
Name "main::newsdate" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line 816.
Name "main::NewsID" used only once: possible typo at
/home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line 761.
Use of uninitialized value at /home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line
1277.
Use of uninitialized value at /home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line
1277.
Use of uninitialized value at /home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi line
1277.
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:20:11AM -0500, John May wrote:
> > I am using Apache 1.3.17 (compiled from source) on Debian Woody. When I
> > try to exec some CGI scripts, by typeing in the URL, ex.
> > http://www.cybergeek.org/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi, I get an an
> > Internal Server Error with the following error in Apache's error log:
> >
> > [Tue Feb 20 08:55:23 2001] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of
> > /home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi failed
> >
> > [Tue Feb 20 08:55:23 2001] [error] [client (ip address)] Premature end
> > of script headers: /home/www/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi
> >
> > I have made sure that the path to Perl is correct in the scripts and
> > that the correct permissions are set. I also made sure that my
> > ScripAlias directory was correct. I can run other scripts, like the
> > test-cgi script and the printenv script, but not any others. Also if I
> > add a (-w) to the Perl statement at the begginning of the script, i.e.
> > #!/usr/bin/perl -w then the script will run, but a whole lot of
> > debugging information fills up the error logs. I have scoured the
> > maillist archives for any solution, but came up empty handed. Any help
> > would be appreciated.
>
> Can you run the script normally outside of apache -- it may not do
> what you want it to do, then, but does it start properly?
>
> It might also be useful if you would post the info you get in the error
> log when using "-w".
>
> Erdmut
>
>
> --
> Erdmut Pfeifer
> science+computing gmbh
>
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