Premature end of script Headers

[justcgi]

I have website with index.cgi file running in redhat 9 server,I encounter error 500 when trying to move this website to other server Redhat linux E.3

error log is pasted below,


[Wed Oct 05 23:14:20 2005] [error] [client 65.002.89.194] Can't locate
CGI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 .) at
/home/she/public_html/index.cgi line 2.
[Wed Oct 05 23:14:20 2005] [error] [client 65.242.89.194] BEGIN
failed--compilation aborted at /home/she/public_html/index.cgi line 2.
[Wed Oct 05 23:14:20 2005] [error] [client 65.002.89.194] Premature end of
script headers: index.cgi



(Please Help)
thanks,
justcgi.

 

[KevinADC]

the problem is:

Can't locate CGI.pm in @INC

which is probably line 2 in your index.cgi scipt:

use CGI;

can you verify that the CGI.pm is installed?

 

[justcgi]

Thank you for replying,

I don’t have CGI.pm file in the new server!!!
So you think if I copy the file from the old server it will work?

The first lines of index.cgi script is pasted below (please check).


#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Cookie;

# Create cookie
$cookie1 = new CGI::Cookie(-name=>'login',-value=>'yes');



Thanks,
justcgi

 

[PaulTEG]

you have perl 5.8.0, I thought CGI.pm was part of the standard install from around 5.6 IIRC

BTW, there appears to be a space at the end of 5.8.0_, not sure if this should be a cause for concern, but it just don't look right to me ;-)

HTH

Spend an hour a week on CPAN, helps cure all known programming ailments ;-)

 

[KevinADC]

your host removed the CGI.pm module? Find a new host, that is a crippled perl install, who knows what else they have removed.

You could put CGI.pm in the cgi-bin and it should work, but it sounds like the host doesn't want you using that module if they removed it from the imstall of perl. Ask them before trying.

 

[justcgi]

thanks for the hints,

I’ve copied the old file of CGI.pm but it says there are error in line 27, error is:

[Tue Oct 11 22:30:22 2005] [error] [client 63.210.59.78] BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CGI.pm line 27.
[Tue Oct 11 22:30:22 2005] [error] [client 63.210.59.78] Compilation failed in require at /home/she/public_html/index.cgi line 2.
[Tue Oct 11 22:30:22 2005] [error] [client 63.210.59.78] BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/she/public_html/index.cgi line 2.
[Tue Oct 11 22:30:22 2005] [error] [client 63.210.59.78] Premature end of script headers: index.cgi


The 27th line in CGI.pm is:

use CGI::Util qw(rearrange make_attributes unescape escape expires


what else I should do?

 

[PaulTEG]

Is your webroot configured to run cgi scripts, that's not good, should be in a subdir of /cgi-bin. I know it can work, but given the rest of your issues.

Ask your host to reinstall CGI.pm

--Paul

Spend an hour a week on CPAN, helps cure all known programming ailments ;-)

 

[KevinADC]

CGI is a family of modules, so you would also have to copy over all the modules that CGI.pm uses internally. I forgot about when I made my original suggestion. You can get all the core CGI modules from cpan, they start with "CGI::"

http://perldoc.perl.org/index-modules-C.html

you really need a new host though hopefully you can move your site. This could be the tip of the iceberg as far as problems trying to run CGI/perl scripts goes.