ActivePerl and Apache

evannextel · 01-13-2006, 01:40 PM

I installed ActivePerl in an effort to get my CGI::Session to work properly. ActivePerl works fine from the command line. However when I try and use apache to serve a test.cgi file It sends a 500 internal server error.
The error_log lists it as (13)Permission denied: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/test.cgi' failed
Premature end of script headers: test.cgi

-All of my permissions are set to 777

slantoflight · 01-14-2006, 07:17 AM

It is my general understanding that cgi's are'nt binary and therefore not directly executed. So setting test.cgi permissions to 777 won't do a whole lot for you. In fact, you should probably change it.

Are you certain there is'nt an error in your scripting?

evannextel · 01-14-2006, 10:46 AM

yeah positive that the script is fine, runs with /usr/bin/perl and on my professors webserver

megaspaz · 01-14-2006, 01:30 PM

did you allow cgi execution in your httpd.conf? Also, with the she-bang line with /usr/bin/perl, you're probably not using activestate perl, but the built in perl installed by your distro.