perl internal server error

[brunobrown1409]

Hi

I have enterred correctly in the httpd.conf the cgi-bin script aliss
also set permissions of perl corrctly 755

i have also debugged correctly and the prog is not showing synatx error

yet when i take it on the browser it shows internal server error.
help?

 

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Hi

I have enterred correctly in the httpd.conf the cgi-bin script aliss
also set permissions of perl corrctly 755

i have also debugged correctly and the prog is not showing synatx error

yet when i take it on the browser it shows internal server error.
help?

1)is the path to perl correct ? (verry first line of the cgi script it should be something like #!/usr/bin/perl
2) to be sure about the perl path run which perl (it returns the correct path)

3) are you using SuExec ? then the cgi must be owned and in the group of the "apache" user (chmod 755 is correct but check the chgrp rights

cd /path/to/your_script
ls -la

this will show you a list of files in the defined directory and also show who owns the files ...

also don't forget your logs...

/etc/httpd/logs
tail error_log

this should at least give you a clue what is causing the problem

 

[brunobrown1409]

thanks for the reply
error log shows
Premature end of script headers:

 

[brunobrown1409]

ls -la shows file owned by root..

 

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ls -la shows file owned by root..

there's your problem you should not run CGI's as root in your httpd.conf where your vhost is defined you will see something like

user username
group groupname

you can also use this command to find out this information

grep "^User" /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

(paths may be different on your server through enter the correct path to httpd.conf)

change the ownership of the cgi you want to run to that information

chown username:groupname file.cgi

 

[brunobrown1409]

Thanks its working now
i also changed the permission of cgi-bin to 755
i aslo changes the first line to #!/usr/bin/perl
now it works
but in my apache
which perl shows
/usr/local/bin/perl