apache cgi not working

[pwrlogic]

i am going nuts
i set up the addhandler and the scriptalias and i still can not get my cgi to work right
whenever i invoke a cgi script i get a internal server error 500
the script gets invoked and runs but the access log shows a 500 604 code and the error logs says something about malformed headers.
i also put execcgi in the directory options.
i have to get a 200 ok code and i cant
any ideas
please hel[

 

[Freemansweb]

Check your httpd.conf for the .cgi and .pl entries. You may need to create a directive to run these from the cgi-bin directory with a different alias, such as

http://yourdomain.com/cgi-pl/yourscript.pl

to run .pl scripts. You should be able to search you conf for .cgi and see how its written.

 

[blizz]

If you FTP your program make sure to upload in ascii mode.

If you wrote or saved you cgi-script in a windows/dos program like wordpad the DOS carriage returns are invisible(^M). So when you upload and run it, unix finds ^M's in the cgi program and spits out a 500 Server Error

Try this at command prompt while in you script directory:

pico (your_filename)
ctrl + O
ctrl + X

This might help get rid of your malformed headers error.




Blizz

http://www.myhostman.com

 

[siberian]

Can you paste in the exact error log?

Cna you also paste how you are sending your headers from the cgi script?