Rob,
Why don't you send the program? No way to guess from what you've
provided.
Cheers,
Jeff
At 10:39 PM 7/17/01 -0400, Rob Yale wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to get a cgi program working (I didn't write it) and I'm
>experiencing some mysterious problems. First of I'll, I should tell you
>that the error I get is the dreaded "Internal Server Error" message. I've
>also looked in the logs, and they're further explicated as follows:
>
>[Tue Jul 17 00:42:16 2001] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of
>/var/www/html/ebay/cgi-bin/spawn_server.cgi failed
>[Tue Jul 17 00:42:16 2001] [error] [client 64.231.11.99] Premature end of
>script headers: /var/www/html/ebay/cgi-bin/spawn_server.cgi
>
>Now for some details:
>
>1) I'm using Apache 1.3.20
>
>2) I'm using ScriptAlias to specify the cgi-bin directory
>
>3) I can execute a simple 'hello world' program in the same cgi-bin
>directory both from the shell, and through CGI. The permissions for all the
>files are 755. The owner of the file is 'nobody', and the group is 'root'.
>
>4) I've tried debugging the script by adding a print statement, and I found
>that the program would execute from the shell, but not through CGI. The
>program expects a ton of parameters to be passed to it from the browser, and
>when I'm executing it from the shell, the only sign that it is working is
>the output from my print statement.
>
>It almost seems as if CGI is actually intermittent. I ran the script as
>follows:
>
>perl -cw spawn_server.cgi and the output of that indicated that the code was
>ok.
>
>I know that this error is very general, but any help pointing me in a
>direction for debugging it would be most appreciated.
>
>Rob Yale
>
>
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