No problemo, quick is my middle name. No, that's not true. Slow and
lazy is...
Yup, the "use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowswer';" should go right near the
top. In the script you probably have:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;
Put it right there, after the use CGI; or whatever else happens to be
there.
Brian Johnson
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> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, but I have two
> quick questions:
>
> With regard to your second suggestion, is use CGI::Carp
> 'fatalsToBrowser';
> supposed to be entered in the perl script? And in the third
> suggestion, is
> that also Perl? Again, should I stick it into the script I
> want to debug?
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 10:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Dreaded Internal Server Error
>
>
> 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
> Source1Hosting.tv, LLC (www.source1hosting.tv)
> Source1Results.com, LLC (www.source1results.com)
> I may be insane, but remember - The only
> difference between an insane man and a
> genius is his jacket.
>
> >
> > 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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