On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:04:37PM -0400, Timothy Kimball wrote:
:
: : I am trying to append to an existing database and my cgi keeps coming up
: : with an Internal Server Error. I've looked this over many times with
: : different books as references, and I can't see what is wrong with it. My
: : form method is POST. Here is my code:
:
: My money's on you not being able to open timesheet.db from a CGI script
: (permissions, probably). I would not expect this error to be in the
: server's error_log, though, because of the comma right after the die.
:
: I would change the open() line to
:
: unless(open(DAT, ">>timesheet.db")){
: die "Cannot Open timesheet.db: $!" };
:
: run it again and taiil the error_log. If this is what's killing
: the script, then $! will tell you why (usually).
Of course, that was 'tail' on *nix ;-)
open a new terminal and try:
$ tail -f /path/to/log/errors
this will continually fill with errors as your code produces them,
it's very handy for debugging.
Casey West
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