cgi-script error 505

[optimised]

Hello,
Trying to run a form cgi-script that I downloaded from bnb.com I have not ran any other scripts yet on this server. When I run the script from browser It produces internal error. Log error says premature end headers
What causes this error? Is there something I need to edit in my httpd file?
I have created a sub directory like-
home/mydomain/

http://www/cgi-bin

where cgi-bin is where I placed the script and perm is 755. I had to copy the cgi file to my /var/

http://www/cgi-bin

directory though to avoid file not found error. I guess this is where apache is looking for the cgi-scripts.
Any suggestions what to try next?

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Well error 505 officially means "HTTP Version Not Supported" but that doesn't sound very likely in this case. Does the script depend on any perl modules that are not installed - e.g. CGI.pm ?

Try the following 'hello world' cgi-script as a very basic test... just make a /var/

http://www/cgi-bin/test.cgi

with the following lines..

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
#
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello World\n";

then do a 'chmod +x /var/

http://www/cgi-bin/test.cgi'

and test it out ..

http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi

Rgds

 

[optimised]

Hi,
The above still produces the error. I issued perl -c and perl -w ,both indicate the script is fine. I'm thinking it may be in my httpd file.

#
AccessFileName .htaccess
UseCanonicalName on
TypesConfig /etc/mime.types
DefaultType "text/plain"

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/

http://www/cgi-bin/"

#
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/

http://www/cgi-bin/"

#
<Directory &quot;/var/

http://www/cgi-bin&quot;>

AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
# If the perl module is installed, this will be enabled.
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
Alias /perl/ /var/

http://www/perl/

<Location /perl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>
</IfModule>

<Directory &quot;/var/

http://www/cgi-bin&quot;>

SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Directory>

# Virtual hosts
# Virtual host Default Virtual Host
<VirtualHost _default_:*>
ServerName _default_
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml
ServerSignature email
LogLevel warn
HostNameLookups off
</VirtualHost>


# Virtual host mydomain.com
<VirtualHost x.x.x.x>
DocumentRoot /home/mydomain/www/
ServerName

http://www.mydomain.com

ServerSignature email
</VirtualHost>

# Directories...
<Directory &quot;/&quot;>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory &quot;/var/

http://www/html&quot;>

Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Allow from from all
Order Deny,Allow
</Directory>

<Directory &quot;/var/

http://www/cgi-bin&quot;>

Options ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
Allow from from all
Order allow,deny
</Directory>

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Well apart from some repeated bits (<Directory &quot;/var/

http://www/cgi-bin&quot;>

again at bottom) it looks OK. Make sure that your perl is really at /usr/bin/perl as that can cause errors - you could also try the explicit +ExecCGI instead of ExecCGI in the cgi-bin directory block. Have a look at -->

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/cgi.html

which describes how to set up apache for cgi.

Rgds

 

[optimised]

Still getting 505 error when trying to run

http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/first.cgi

Do I need to change my vhost container or add something else to my httpd file?

//
# Documents
DocumentRoot /var/

http://www/html

UserDir public_html
IndexOptions FancyIndexing

#
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ &quot;/var/

http://www/cgi-bin/&quot;

#
<Directory &quot;/var/

http://www/cgi-bin&quot;>

AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

# If the perl module is installed, this will be enabled.
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
Alias /perl/ /var/

http://www/perl/

<Location /perl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>
</IfModule>

# Virtual host mydomain.com
<VirtualHost x.x.x.x>
DocumentRoot /home/mydomain/www/
ServerName

http://www.mydomain.com

ServerSignature email
</VirtualHost>

 

[optimised]

Hello,

Back on cgi problem this week. I noticed in the error_log
messages> error (2) file or directory not found ;
message> premature end of script next line in error_log.
I am sure the path and file exist.
If I run script from command line>
cgi-bin># perl myscript.cgi
it runs fine no errors. But in browser it can't find file or directory. What am I missing path seems to be correct.

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ &quot;/home/mydomain/

http://www/cgi-bin/&quot;

<VirtualHost x.x.x.x>
DocumentRoot /home/mydomain/www/
ServerName

http://www.mydomain.com

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ &quot;/home/mydomain/

http://www/cgi-bin/&quot;

ServerSignature email
</VirtualHost>

Thanks

 

[TheRAt]

try

chmod 0755 myscript.cgi

and then try to access through the web...
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