Not sure where this should go...

But I can't get my CGI-BIN to work.

I tried both a simple html page and a cgi script from sourceforge.


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from var/log/httpd/error_log
Redhat ES 3


[Mon Sep 05 14:03:03 2005] [error] [client 12.222.119.135] Premature end of script headers: howto.html
[Mon Sep 05 14:03:04 2005] [error] [client 12.222.119.135] (8)Exec format error: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/handconverter/howto.html' failed
[Mon Sep 05 14:03:04 2005] [error] [client 12.222.119.135] Premature end of script headers: howto.html
[Mon Sep 05 14:03:14 2005] [error] [client 12.222.119.135] attempt to invoke directory as script: /var/www/cgi-bin/
[Mon Sep 05 14:04:53 2005] [error] [client 12.222.119.135] (8)Exec format error: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/index.html' failed
[Mon Sep 05 14:04:53 2005] [error] [client 12.222.119.135] Premature end of script headers: index.html


The same thing happens when I try to access a CGI script downloaded from sourceforge.

[Mon Sep 05 14:15:00 2005] [error] [client 12.222.119.135] Premature end of script headers: hhconverter.cgi
[Mon Sep 05 14:15:01 2005] [error] [client 12.222.119.135] (2)No such file or directory: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/handconverter/hhconverter.cgi' failed
[Mon Sep 05 14:15:01 2005] [error] [client 12.222.119.135] Premature end of script headers: hhconverter.cgi
[Mon Sep 05 14:15:02 2005] [error] [client 12.222.119.135] (2)No such file or directory: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/handconverter/hhconverter.cgi' failed
[Mon Sep 05 14:15:02 2005] [error] [client 12.222.119.135] Premature end of script headers: hhconverter.cgi
[Mon Sep 05 14:15:04 2005] [error] [client 12.222.119.135] (2)No such file or directory: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/handconverter/hhconverter.cgi' failed
[Mon Sep 05 14:15:04 2005] [error] [client 12.222.119.135] Premature end of script headers: hhconverter.cgi

Post your CGI script here and did you forget to make it "Xecutable" by world?

The sourcecode is huge but it works.

I found it here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/handconverter/

I changed the perl line to the proper directory.

I did a chmod 755 to everything

Now,

this particular script is not working or no scripts are working?

eh........

well I made an index.html

that wouldn't work.

However I just downloaded a text clock and installed it here:

http://parazen.bio.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/textclock.cgi

That seems to work. So I guess it's the code. Still, I would of thought a simple html page would work in the cgi bin. I guess not.

Here you were trying to run HTML files within a cgi-bin directory. That obviously doesn't work. In fact, you can probably move all your stuff outside of cgi-bin and put it somewhere else; since the CGI script already has a ".cgi" extension.

Are you sure that you put in the correct path to Perl after the shebang on the first line of the script? Do "which perl" to find the path to Perl.

We cannot put HTML files in CGI-BIN ?

>> since CGI scripts alread have a .cgi extension ??

what about perl scripts then? perl scripts running from CHI-BIN dir ?

correction : CGI-BIN and not "CHI-BIN"