i downloaded cgi-lib.pl and placed it in the same directory as my script. (from cgi-lib.berkeley.edu) it runs fine on the cmdline (both my box and my university's server)
the error i get in /var/log/apache/error.log is (without the time stamp): Premature end of script headers: /home/herb/public_html/init/login.pl what changes have to be made to a stock apache config on potato for cgi/perl to work in the user public_html directories? the changes i've made so far: 1) in access.conf (adding ExecCGI to the Options directive in the DirectoryMatch directive for the public_html directories) 2) in srm.conf (adding AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi) ## my script works in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ but not in the public_html directories. i've tried copying the Directory directive for /usr/lib/cgi-bin word for word to the public_html directive w/ no effect. also i've tried this even without cgi-lib.pl, without any difference on my box (while it works on the university server). here's another "simple" script that i tried: #!/usr/bin/perl -w print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print <<EOF; <html><body> hi </body></html> EOF thanks for everyone's help so far. i'm gonna get this to work...somehow. =) herbert On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:34:12PM -0800, brian moore wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 12:18:29AM -0600, Herbert Ho wrote: > > i posted before w/ 400 forbidden problems. i fixed that, but i still > > can't get a script to run. > > > > i now get: > > > > Premature end of script headers: /home/herb/public_html/init/login.pl > > > > i'm pretty sure it's not my script since it works on another webserver > > that my university runs (and i can't find their conf files to > > compare). > > Don't be so sure... > > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > require "cgi-lib.pl"; > > Do you have cgi-lib.pl installed? It's very old and icky. > > Look at /var/log/apache/error.log for the errors.
