Nicholas Davey wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Okay, I have been over my script about a hundred times, and
> all my syntax is perfect. However, when I view my page on the net, I
> get this:
>
> Internal Server Error
> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration
> and was unable to complete your request.
> Please contact the server administrator, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything
> you might have done that may have caused the error.
>
> More information about this error may be available in the server
> error log.
>
>
>
> When I check the error log, I get this back (this is the last
> three line of the error log, cause the last 50 entries are all the
> same):
>
>
>
> failed to open log file
> fopen: Permission denied
> [Fri Jun 13 07:45:57 2003] [error] [client
> 64.207.81.146] Premature end of script headers: <path removed
> for security reasons>/cgi-bin/index.cgi
When the server executes your CGI script, it directs STDERR to the error log
file. It then executes your script and captures the STDOUT, looking for the
MIME headers. It will add some more headers before sending the response back
to the client.
The first two lines above:
failed to open log file
fopen: Permission denied
are being produced by your script. Presumably, your script is calling die()
or exit() either directly or indirectly after emitting this message.
The third line:
[Fri Jun 13 07:45:57 2003] [error] [client 64.207.81.146] Premature
end of script headers: path removed for security reasons>/cgi-bin/index.cgi
is produced by the web server. Your script died before the MIME headers had
been written, so the server was unable to find the headers in the STDOUT of
your script. This error is also produced if your script has a syntax error
(and thus dies during the compile phase).
So, you need to find the point in your script where it's opening some kind
of log file and deal with the permission violation. Remember that the web
server runs under its own user id, so that user id will need appropriate
permissions in the files and directories you're tyring to access here.
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