[CentOS] OT: Apache Script Problem

Thu Oct 20 22:07:56 UTC 2005
James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com>

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 17:57 -0400, Thomas E Dukes wrote:
>  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of James Pifer
> > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 5:44 PM
> > To: CentOS
> > Subject: [CentOS] OT: Apache Script Problem
> > 
> > I recently moved a web site from an old Windows NT machine 
> > running Apache to a server running CentOS 4.1. Everything is 
> > working fine on the site except for one perl script. I have 
> > the standard directory setup:
> > /var/www/html
> > /var/www/cgi-bin
> > etc
> > 
> > We had to change our scripts when we moved them because they 
> > had windows paths. We have a problem with one script called:
> > contactp.pl
> > 
> > It's located at: /var/www/cgi-bin
> > 
> > [root at server cgi-bin]# pwd
> > /var/www/cgi-bin
> > [root at server cgi-bin]# ls -l:
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 apache root 1047 Oct 20 15:32 contactp.pl
> > 
> > When the script is called I get a 500 Internal Server Error. 
> > The error log gives me the following two errors:
> > [Thu Oct 20 15:43:35 2005] [error] (2)No such file or 
> > directory: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/contactp.pl' failed, referer:
> > http://www.mysite.com/contactus.html
> > [Thu Oct 20 15:43:35 2005] [error] Premature end of script headers:
> > contactp.pl, referer: http://www.mysite.com/contactus.html
> > 
> > The file is definitely there and apache owns it. I'm not sure 
> > what else to look for now. Anyone have any suggestions? I've 
> > googled for the premature headers error and I'm thinking it's 
> > because of the first error? Could be wrong. Other scripts in 
> > the same directory run fine, and I can run the script at the 
> > command line.
> > 
> > Any help is appreciated. 
> 
> Trying running dos2unix <filename>.  You'll have to fix your permissions
> afterwards.
> 
> 

Darn it! I swore I had already done that, but I looked back at the
history and I did it to one of the htm files, not the script. That fixed
it. 

THANKS!!!!!

James