Hello,
I've been using FormMail (well known, I'm sure) CGI script on my Apache servers for 5-6 years and never had a problem.
I recently upgraded from RH9 to FC2 and FormMail no longer works. Rather, I keep getting 500 errors on the server.
I tested the script from command line and it's fine, the path to the script is good as well as the permissions.
When I review error_log for Apache it shows Premature end of script headers: FormMail.pl
I ran into a scenerio where I was trying to run virtual websites and when I attempted to run CGI from within the users CGI-bin, I would get these errors. However, the main site would work just fine (same script) I never did solve the problem, I just went to using PHP instead. I believe that this error has to do with running CGI scripts outside of your docroot. Such as a users directory or something. Apache needs Suexec compiled into it or somesuch to support this. So I don't know if it was permissions, or what...I just didn't have the time to figure it out....
Anyway, if you are using Matt's Formmail script, you should check out: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml for their 'nms FormMail'
Their scripts are much more secure, and actually, they have an improved FormMail script there called TFMail.
We use the nms FormMail right now, but I am looking to switch to the TFMail when I get a chance.
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