I have just set up my apache web server so that I can use the cgi-bin. I made a little hello world script and every thing sorks fine. I then Downloaded a script and tried to run it from my web browser. I get this error:

[Thu Jan 23 21:12:09 2003] [error] [client 10.10.1.10] Premature end of script headers: /var/www/cgi-bin/stats.cgi

I then downloaded another scrip and got the same error. could there be something wrong with my apache configuration that prevents me from running certain scripts? Below is an example of one of the scripts that I downloaded.

$sURLFilter = '';
$sIPFilter = '';
$sHostFilter = '';
$sCounterFilter = '';
$bAutoCreate = 0;


#---------------------------------------------------------------------------

{
local( $__COUNTER_DAT ) = 'livecntr.dat';

print "Content-type: text/plain\nPragma: no-cache\nCache-control: no-cache\nExpires: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 00:01:00 -0500\n\n";

if( $ARGV[0] )
{
local( $nCount ) = 0;
local( $Temp );

if( '' ne $ARGV[4] )
{
$ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'} = $ARGV[4];
}

if( $ARGV[1] && ( '0' ne $ARGV[1] ) )
{
$__COUNTER_DAT = $ARGV[1] . '.lcd';
}

if( -w "$__COUNTER_DAT" )
{
local( $bInc ) = 0;

if( open( F, "+<$__COUNTER_DAT" ) )
{
flock( F, 2 );
seek( F, 0, 0 );

( $Temp, $nCount ) = split( /\s/, <F> );

if( 'i' eq $ARGV[0] )
{
local( $bFiltersOk ) = 1;

if( $sURLFilter && ( lc( $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'} ) !~ $sURLFilter ) )
{
$bFiltersOk = 0;
}
if( $bFiltersOk &&
$sIPFilter && ( $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'} =~ $sIPFilter ) )
{
$bFiltersOk = 0;
}
if( $bFiltersOk &&
$sHostFilter && ( $ENV{'REMOTE_HOST'} =~ $sHostFilter ) )
{
$bFiltersOk = 0;
}
if( $bFiltersOk &&
$sCounterFilter && ( $__COUNTER_DAT =~ $sCounterFilter ) )
{
$bFiltersOk = 0;
}

if( $bFiltersOk )
{
seek( F, 0, 0 );

++$nCount;

print F "Total: $nCount\n";

$bInc = 1;
}
}

flock( F, 8 );
close( F );
}

}
elsif( $bAutoCreate )
{
if( ( !( -e "$__COUNTER_DAT" ) ) && open( F, ">$__COUNTER_DAT" ) )
{
print F "Total: 0\n";
close( F );
}
}

print "c0=$nCount\n";
if( 'v' eq $ARGV[0] )
{
print "vr=99AX\n";
}
}
}

Just a hunch, here. Did you download the scripts in windows? That would result in that error.
If so, you may have to run dos2unix on the script to convert the dos/windows line endings to unix/linux.

--- Cerbere

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

should be first line assuming that's where perl is installed

Thank all of you, Cerbere You were right. I ran the dos2unix file tool and works like a champ.