thanks to everyone who's helped out on this. especially Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for pointing me to perl.apache.org. wow. =)
in any case. for posterity. in a stock apache-perl install on a potato, you have to add something like the following to access.conf: <Files ~ "\.pl$"> SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::Registry PerlSendHeader On Options ExecCGI </Files> a good resource is also the man page on going from cgi to perl (cgi_to_mod_perl). *sigh* it feels good to get it to work. =) thanks again everyone! herbert On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:59:09PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > welcome to the club, you've been initiated. > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:34:40AM -0600, Herbert Ho wrote: > > i downloaded cgi-lib.pl and placed it in the same directory as my > > script. (from cgi-lib.berkeley.edu) it runs fine on the cmdline (both > > my box and my university's server) > > > > the error i get in /var/log/apache/error.log is (without the time > > stamp): > > > > Premature end of script headers: /home/herb/public_html/init/login.pl > > > > what changes have to be made to a stock apache config on potato for > > cgi/perl to work in the user public_html directories? > > apache, when it runs a process that generates the stuff that'll > be sent out to a client's browser, checks the text for > completeness. this includes all the header fields, such as > > content-type: text/html > connection: close > date: 27 nov 2000 > accept-ranges: bytes > > try this, now: > > telnet localhost 80 ^M > GET / HTTP/1.1 ^M > ^M > > <localhost> is whatever host your server's running on; > the ^M merely denotes end-of-line/enter on your part. > > here's what you'll get back: > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: yada-yada > > that first line is the STATUS for the whole request, > which comes even before the header:value fields. > > so try this in your script: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > print "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\nContent-Type: text/html\n\n"; > print "<b>hello world</b><p>it worked!"; > > so what you're seeing is APACHE noticing that you > didn't specify a HTTP STATUS CODE. > > from the perl.apache.org/guide/ website-- > > If you take a basic CGI script like this: > > print "Content-type: text/plain\r\n\r\n"; > print "Hello world"; > > it wouldn't work, because the HTTP header will not be sent > out. By default, mod_perl does not send any headers itself. > You may wish to change this by adding > > PerlSendHeader On > > in the Apache::Registry <Location> section of your > configuration. Now, the response line and common headers > will be sent as they are by mod_cgi. Just as with mod_cgi, > PerlSendHeader will not send the MIME type and a terminating > double newline. Your script must send that itself > > the modperl guide (perl.apache.org/guide) offers a wealth of > info, once you know what you're looking for... :) > > > the changes i've made so far: > > > > 1) in access.conf (adding ExecCGI to the Options directive in the > > DirectoryMatch directive for the public_html directories) > > > > 2) in srm.conf (adding AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi) > > > > ## my script works in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ but not in the public_html > > directories. i've tried copying the Directory directive for > > /usr/lib/cgi-bin word for word to the public_html directive w/ no > > effect. > > you need > # something along the lines of... > LoadModule userdir_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_userdir.so > UserDir /home/*/public_html > <DirectoryMatch ^/home/.*/public_html/cgi-bin> > Options +ExecCGI > </DirectoryMatch> > UserDir disabled root > somewhere in your config, then. > > > thanks for everyone's help so far. i'm gonna get this to > > work...somehow. =)
