[CentOS] OT: Apache Script Problem

Thu Oct 20 21:57:39 UTC 2005
Thomas E Dukes <edukes at alltel.net>

 

> -----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.