I wrote some very simple perl and python scripts for testing in the cgi-bin/ of apache. I did chmod 755 on the script and all /var/www/ dirs are owned by user and grp root. I even invoked perl and python manually on the scripts by typing 'python testscript.py', etc. I cannot seem to invoke execution from ./testscript.py or the full pathname (which is the same either way). Thus, the #! won't work and when viewed from a web-browser I get "internal server error".

Please help. I am thinking it might have to do chroot or something not allowing the script to see after #!. Thanks.

(and yes, the #! matches with the correct path :P)

Is Apache configured correctly to execute such files, in the cgi-bin directory defined.. etc?

What is th #! line? Do you have the correct path to the interpreter?

I fixed the #! problem. It seemed to be some weird problem from writing it in notepad. I rewrote it in vi and it worked 100%.

But, I still get the "internal server error". I looked through http.conf and everything looked fine and I even experimented some. Any ideas?

Ah, the old \r\n vs. \n problem. Run dos2unix on the file, it should work fine.

So you have something like this for .cgi scripts and your py and pl scripts?

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

For all of your types of scripts to be executed from the browser and server so apache knows what to do with such scripts? You even experimented some? Care to ellaborate on what you experimented with or did?

Why not link or post your httpd.conf file if your not sure?

Hey, thanks for help. The notepad problem was appending ^M to the end of each line. (vi didnt show this to me while editing it). Rewriting in a real text editor like vi solved it.

For cgi scripts do you need to manually redirect stdout? The cgi tests that came with apache in the cgi-bin/ are working fine. So its a script problem. Feel free to write an example py script or something...(maybe i need to import cgi..)