I'm having a bit of trouble getting a certain CGI script to run in any dir other than the serverroot...

I have a user called 'test' (http://myip/~test) and SSI works fine in any file in any dir-but calling a cgi via SSI returns no error message on the site (the standard [error occured while processing this directive])-but in the error_log I get the following:

[Sat Dec 29 00:22:08 2001] [error] [client *.*.*.*] Premature end of script headers: /home/test/html/cgi-bin/counter.cgi

Also-when going to '/~test/cgi-bin/counter.cgi' I get a 500 Server error....

However-I can run the SAME script in my default 'var/www/html' dir with no problems. Here are my dir settings in my httpd.conf:

<Directory "/">
Options FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None



</Directory>

<Directory "/var/www/html">
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
AllowOverride None
Allow from from all


Order Deny,Allow
</Directory>

<Directory "/var/www/icons">
Options Indexes MultiViews

AllowOverride None
Allow from from all


Order allow,deny
</Directory>

<Directory "/var/www/html/cgi-bin">
Options ExecCGI Indexes Includes
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
AllowOverride None
Allow from from all


Order allow,deny
</Directory>

<Directory "/home/*/html/cgi-bin">
Options ExecCGI Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
AllowOverride None
Allow from from all


Order allow,deny
</Directory>
<Directory "/home/*/html">
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
AllowOverride None
Allow from from all


Order allow,deny
</Directory>

<Directory "/home/*/html/cgi-bin">
Options ExecCGI Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
</Directory>

Any ideas?

Hi,

Maybe you are running Apache with Suexec support and the user does not have permissons on the script(s) concerned or some file/directory accessed by the script. If suexec is active then the script should 'automatically' run under the user's access rights not the httpd server userid.

See --> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/suexec.html

Regards

This solved the same problems for me.

chmod -R 755 /var/www/cgi_bin
chgrp -R apache /var/www/cgi-bin
chown -R apache /var/www/cgi-bin

See also....
http://www.redhat.com/support/resou...he-FAQ/x33.html

Wam! No more Premature end of script headers errors.