Thanks all for responding. Funny how you post a message and right after it you find the problem (and I waited a week for this one). Turns out there were unstripped returns in the scripts. Once I found those out the rest was cake. Oddly enough when doing a 'perl -d' on a script perl usually tells you there are returns but this time it didn't. Must be something new in perl debug. Btw, the error_log was not very helpful (I had already looked it over till my eyes bled) even with '-w' but I did find a few things that needed correcting. :) Again thanks all ... I have another issue but I will post seperatly on that. Paul Pettit IT Manager / Webmaster > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tobias > Speckbacher > Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 1:50 PM > To: ismanager@xxxxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: RE: Perl / Apache on RH9.0 not working. > > > 1. make sure that the permissions on the file are set correctly (755 > typically) > 2. make sure that the AddHandler for cgi is set should you be > executing it outside of a scriptasliased directory and that > the ExecCGI option is set for that directory. 3. if you get a > 500 error, always check your error_log, it is quite helpful. > > -Tobias > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of IS Manager > Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 9:45 AM > To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' > Subject: Perl / Apache on RH9.0 not working. > > After a complete re-install of RH to v9.0 I can't get even > the simplest of perl scripts to work in Apache. If I set the > bang to -w the script will work but if it is not set then > then I get this: > -------------------------------- > Server error! > The server encountered an internal error and was unable to > complete your request. > Error message: > Premature end of script headers: hello.cgi > If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster > Error 500 > [site url] > Mon 26 Apr 2004 12:36:41 PM CDT > Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux) > --------------------------------- > > The script in question is this: > -------------------------------- > #!/usr/bin/perl > # > print <<EOP; > Content-type: text/html > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 > Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> > <title>Hello World!</title> > </head> > <body> > <p>Hello World!</p> > </body> > </html> > EOP > -------------------------------- > > Can't get any simpler than that. So anyone know what's wrong? > This is the first time I"ve used Apache 2.0 so I'm not sure > if this is an Apache or a Perl issue. > > Here is the mod_perl info from the server: > --------------------------------- > Module Name: mod_perl.c > Content handlers: yes > Configuration Phase Participation: Create Directory Config, > Merge Directory Configs, Create Server Config, Merge Server > Configs Request Phase Participation: Post-Read Request, > Header Parse, Translate Path, Check Access, Verify User ID, > Verify User Access, Check Type, Fixups, Logging > Module Directives: > PerlSwitches - Perl Switches > PerlModule - PerlModule > PerlRequire - PerlRequire > PerlOptions - Perl Options > PerlInitHandler - Subroutine name > PerlSetVar - PerlSetVar > PerlAddVar - PerlAddVar > PerlSetEnv - PerlSetEnv > PerlPassEnv - PerlPassEnv > <Perl - NOT YET IMPLEMENTED > =pod - Start of POD > =back - End of =over > =cut - End of POD > __END__ - Stop reading config > PerlLoadModule - A Perl module > PerlInterpStart - Number of Perl interpreters to start > PerlInterpMax - Max number of running Perl interpreters > PerlInterpMaxSpare - Max number of spare Perl interpreters > PerlInterpMinSpare - Min number of spare Perl interpreters > PerlInterpMaxRequests - Max number of requests per Perl interpreters > PerlInterpScope - Scope of a Perl interpreter > PerlSendHeader - Tell mod_perl to scan output for HTTP headers > PerlSetupEnv - Turn setup of %ENV On or Off > PerlHandler - Subroutine name > PerlTaintCheck - Turn on -T switch > PerlWarn - Turn on -w switch > PerlProcessConnectionHandler - Subroutine name > PerlChildInitHandler - Subroutine name > PerlPreConnectionHandler - Subroutine name > PerlHeaderParserHandler - Subroutine name > PerlAccessHandler - Subroutine name > PerlAuthenHandler - Subroutine name > PerlAuthzHandler - Subroutine name > PerlTypeHandler - Subroutine name > PerlFixupHandler - Subroutine name > PerlResponseHandler - Subroutine name > PerlLogHandler - Subroutine name > PerlInputFilterHandler - Subroutine name > PerlOutputFilterHandler - Subroutine name > PerlPostReadRequestHandler - Subroutine name > PerlTransHandler - Subroutine name > PerlOpenLogsHandler - Subroutine name > PerlPostConfigHandler - Subroutine name > Current Configuration: > ------------------------------------ > > Any help would be welcome. > > Thanks in advance. > > Paul Pettit > IT Manager / Webmaster > Consistent Computer Bargains, Inc. > http://www.ccbnpts.com > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
