CGI Error

Last post was 05 Dec 2006 at 07:13

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14 years ago

by pirus

Piyush Rahate

Nagpur, India

Joined 15 years ago
Hi everyone,
I recently switched to PERL - CGI and actually don't know how to start using CGI.
I am trying to execute a Hello World cgi script but continuously getting an internal server error.
However when I run the same script on my localhost I don't get any error.
Following is the script I am using

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<HTML;
<html>
<head>
<title>A Simple Perl CGI</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>A Simple Perl CGI</h1>
<p>Hello World</p>
</body>
HTML
exit;

When I execute this script with .pl extension it gives me proper result but when I execute it with .cgi extension its throwing the internal server error.

Help me folks :(

Thanks in advance
GOD BLESS

pIrus
I 4 INDIAN

ps: I have tried almost all the options that I was able to find on net regarding 500 Internal Server Error

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14 years ago

by pirus

Piyush Rahate

Nagpur, India

Joined 15 years ago
Hi everyone
Again after googling a more I found out that in suexec_log file I am getting a error

mismatch with directory (2523/10001) or program (2523/0)

Hope this could give you people some hint...
waiting for replies desperately

Thanks again
GOD BLESS
pIrus
I 4 INDIAN

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14 years ago

by pirus

Piyush Rahate

Nagpur, India

Joined 15 years ago
Hi everyone!
I got a workaround the issue. The main cause of my error was suexec wrapper that we use with
Apache web server for execution of cgi scripts and other applications.
And by default it checks for certain permissions which needs to be satisfied before executing
the CGI scripts. Though I could not satisfy suexec but I found that if we disable suexec my scripts worked fine . So I finally decided to disable suexec and my scripts are working fine.

So if anyone is having any similar issue you can just disable suexec wrapper and have your scripts working.

By default suexec is in the sbin directory , to disable it you just need to remove it from that path and restart the Apache Web Server.

To learn more about Suexec you can visit
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/suexec.html

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/suexec.html

Hope this might help some one.

Thank you all

GOD BLESS
pIrus
I 4 INDIAN

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