Another thing you'll want to check is your path to perl (the first line). For example, when I run a script on windows, I must change the path to e:/perl/bin/perl.exe - because that's my path to my perl executable.
-- Erich Musick http://erichmusick.com "Rob Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The message you see in the browser usually means very little, and doesn't > help much. Check your web server's error logs to see the real error. > > If you are getting that error you can be pretty sure that your web server is > at least trying to execute the script. So after checking your logs, I would > check the following in this order: > > 1. Is the script executable (chmod +x) > 2. Can your web server user execute perl. > 3. Can your web server user read and exec your script. > > If you have root access you can try su'ing to that user and attempt to run > the script. That would eliminate all of the above. > > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Glucksman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 1:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: cgi error > > > Hello everyone, > > I am new to Perl and CGI so I need some help. I have a > simple cgi script: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; > > print "This is my first CGI application"; > > > I save the script using the .cgi nameing convention. I > can run the script from unix with no errors but when I > try to run it in a browser I get: > > Internal Server Error > The server encountered an internal error or > misconfiguration and was unable to complete your > request. > > I must be missing something obvious. > Any suggestions? > Thanks > David > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
