Premature end of script headers: post.cgi

[pichi]

hi everyboyd, i am new at cgi-bin, but everytime i want to test a pl file i get this error:
Premature end of script headers: post.cgi

the file and directory ownership of my http dir are apache and apache for group, (dir http: /home/http/docs) i can see my web page, and the cgi-bin dir (/var/

http://www/cgi.bin)also

has the apache and apache ownership , the file permissions are 777, so everybody can excute, waht's wrong ?? does anybody know??

 

[stratcat]

Did the script come from dos/win?
If so, it has carriage returns along with linefeeds.
linux/unix only uses linefeeds.
Find a dos2unix util and run it on the script.

 

[Newposter]

I just ran into this problem last night. I was trying to implement an older linux script that worked on someone else's server. Here's the solution: the first two lines of your script file must be:

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

Check to be sure the first line really is the path to your PERL executable; for my version of linux, that had changed.

The second line was in my script file, but further down. Moving it up to where it is fixed my problem. Newposter
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