CGI not working anymore!! (working ok from prompt)

[internetfab]

Having severe problems with CGI for about 2 days time now. It seems that all our cPanel servers have probles with CGI - even our newly installed cPanel server

If the script is called from prompt everything seems fine, the script executes. But as soon as it is called as a httpd request it fails with the error message premature headers (in the log file). Internal server error. (error 500)

Yes, the scripts are running with the right permissions (755 or 644 - tried em all.) Reconfigured apache - still getting the same error.

Running WHM 6.4.2 and cpanel 6.4.2-R5 on redhat 8.0

All / Any help or advice or just about anything appreciated!!

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[internetfab]

Found it out!

Seems that Perl has been upgraded from 5.6 to 5.8 and now after content type one needs to put 2 \n after eachother for cgi scripts to work.. sigh

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

Well.. there should be a switch in perl for this right? So that one doesn't have to go and change in every script..

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[Website Rob]

Originally posted by internetfab
Found it out!

Seems that Perl has been upgraded from 5.6 to 5.8 and now after content type one needs to put 2 \n after eachother for cgi scripts to work.. sigh

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

Well.. there should be a switch in perl for this right? So that one doesn't have to go and change in every script..

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I take it, you were not aware that Perl has 'always' operated that way.

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[GOT]

I am also having broken CGI problems, and, unfortuantely, I do not quite understand how this fix is implemented?

Could someone be a little more specific please?

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[GOT]

Nevermind, that did not fix it either.

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[casey]

What do the error logs say?

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[GOT]

The logs are not saying anything worthwhile, but it seems I have things working.

One of the things I did in trying to get things working was to compile the perl module into Apache. I do not think that had anything to do with it, but what is that for, anyway?

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[tAzMaNiAc]

Aren't you supposed to use buildapache.sea??

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[casey]

You can use the following code to get more useful error messages:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
select(STDOUT);
$| = 1;
open(STDERR, ">&STDOUT");
print "Starting CGI script execution now...\n\n";

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