hi!: i'm using FC1 and apache 2.0.48, i installed perl5.83

i modified my httpd.conf file properly already, and those *cgi files that i download from internet when i try to test them in my browser

htt-p://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/test.cgi for example

it always give me 500 Error!! i've changed permission into 777 or 755 already.

BUT! when i use gftp to download the same file to my machine, and it runs without any problem!

the question is how could i test those cgi files originally on my machine work via apache??


thank you!!

What error are you getting in your apache "error_log"?

the error from error_log is

"[Sat May 01 01:10:17 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: perldiver.cgi"

and

#!/usr/bin/perl



# Note: This program currently cannot run with -T. The Module::Info module

# does not perform taint checking. However, all user input is taint-checked

# in Perl Diver.



use lib '.';

do 'perldiver.conf' or die "Can't load conf file $!";





BEGIN{

$ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin';

delete @ENV{ 'IFS', 'CDPATH', 'ENV', 'BASH_ENV' };

}


......

is the original beginning of the cgi file. i downloaded the a .zip file from Internet.

The problem is solved by just simply adding -w after the first line which is

#!/usr/bin/perl

now i changed it into

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

and it could work!

but the question still i can't figure out, why when the same file i downloaded by using gFTP can be excuted successfully, but the file i just downloaded by clicking the link in web browser doesn't work??

if i'd like to test those cgi files in my harddriver, do i need to add "-w" to the first line of each file manually??