How to run Perl CGI script

[rgaut]

I just registered with a web service provider that uses cPanel. I cannot get any support from them and i am a newbie so i am looking for answers on this forum. I am trying to run Perl CGI scipts but i keep getting the following error: Internal Server Error 500
I created the folling script for test purpose:
#!/usr/bin/perl


print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Show me the monkey";

The permission for the home directory and scipt file are set to 755
The extension of the file is .cgi
An HTML file runs fine
I tried it as well from the cgi-bin directory without any success
The server is running on Apache

Any Ideas ???

 

[bradandersen]

Looks like a bug

I just moved a bunch of users and all of the /cgi-bin scripts are pointing to /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin instead of the actual domain's /cgi-bin directory.

Brad

 

[bradandersen]

Just confirmed

The script alias is missing in the /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf file. I will submit a bug to bugzilla.

Brad

 

[bradandersen]

Missing for all domains

It is missing for all of my domains so none of my current users can do CGI scripting at the moment.

Brad

 

[NexGenUK]

The home directory (public_html) should be chmod to 0750 (rwxr-x---) - as long as the .cgi file is chmod with 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) it should work... It shouldnt have to be in the cgi-bin dir for that to work (have tested on 4 different servers).