Configure apache for executing .cgi

[optimised]

Hi folks,

I am trying to get my web server to execute cgi-scripts. I'm starting off using this small script listed below. I put the script in my domain's subdir cgi-bin folder
/home/mydomain/cgi
because I would like to allow virtualhost it's own cgi-bin.

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

I ran >perl -c test.cgi
syntax fine
Then >perl - w test.cgi
Hello World

command line works fine returns- Hello World.
/cgi-bin>#perl test.cgi

Works o.k from command line but error 500 from browser
//

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

[error] (2) No such file or directory: exec of /home/mydomain/cgi-bin/test.cgi
[error] Premature end of script headers

//httpd file

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/mydomain/cgi-bin/"

<Directory &quot;/home/mydomain/

http://www&quot;>

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

<Directory &quot;/home/mydomain/cgi-bin&quot;>
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

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

http://www.mydomain.com

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ &quot;/home/mydomain/cgi-bin/&quot;
ServerSignature email
</VirtualHost>


Thks for help..

 

[latch]

Possible reasons I can think of:

1. Your perl script may have not have the necessary execute permissions.

chmod +x test.cgi

from your UNIX prompt should help

2. Check if .cgi files are taken care of by Apache.



HTH

 

[optimised]

Hello,
test.cgi perm = 0755

Someone told me from another forum to try this command to remove any ^M from scripts which may be causing problem.


perl -e &quot;?????&quot; -i -n -p test.cgi

When I try it I get error executing -e compilation error

Any other way to do this?
thanks......