First off, I wouldn't make the file owned by nobody and have permissions
of 755. Somebody could find a hole in your code, write over the script,
and have it execute something nasty and not good.
Second, try this:
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';
If that doesn't work for ya (which it doesn't for me every once in a
while) then try this:
BEGIN {
open STDERR, ">&STDOUT";
$oldfh = select STDOUT;
$|=1;
select STDERR;
$|=1;
select $oldfh;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
}
These 2 things basically do the same thing, they print the error message
to the screen so you can further diagnose your problem. :o)
If this doesn't work, try posting some code so we can see it. Maybe one
of the many gurus will see something that you are missing.
Brian Johnson
Partner/Systems Administrator/Programmer
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>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get a cgi program working (I didn't write it) and I'm
> experiencing some mysterious problems. First of I'll, I
> should tell you
> that the error I get is the dreaded "Internal Server Error"
> message. I've
> also looked in the logs, and they're further explicated as follows:
>
> [Tue Jul 17 00:42:16 2001] [error] (2)No such file or
> directory: exec of
> /var/www/html/ebay/cgi-bin/spawn_server.cgi failed
> [Tue Jul 17 00:42:16 2001] [error] [client 64.231.11.99]
> Premature end of
> script headers: /var/www/html/ebay/cgi-bin/spawn_server.cgi
>
> Now for some details:
>
> 1) I'm using Apache 1.3.20
>
> 2) I'm using ScriptAlias to specify the cgi-bin directory
>
> 3) I can execute a simple 'hello world' program in the same cgi-bin
> directory both from the shell, and through CGI. The
> permissions for all the
> files are 755. The owner of the file is 'nobody', and the
> group is 'root'.
>
> 4) I've tried debugging the script by adding a print
> statement, and I found
> that the program would execute from the shell, but not
> through CGI. The
> program expects a ton of parameters to be passed to it from
> the browser, and
> when I'm executing it from the shell, the only sign that it
> is working is
> the output from my print statement.
>
> It almost seems as if CGI is actually intermittent. I ran
> the script as
> follows:
>
> perl -cw spawn_server.cgi and the output of that indicated
> that the code was
> ok.
>
> I know that this error is very general, but any help pointing me in a
> direction for debugging it would be most appreciated.
>
> Rob Yale
>
>
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