>
> Fedora Core 4
> Apache 2.0.54
>
> I seem to be having this same problem. I read the manual at:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/cgi.html#writing
>
> and created the "first.pl" file. when I run "./first.pl" from the command
> line, all it prints is:
>
> Content-type: text/html
>
> and does not print the "Hello, World." at all.
>
> And in my browser - it gives me the "Internal Server Error"
>
> All it says in my error logs is:
>
> [Thu Feb 23 08:55:35 2006] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] Premature end of
> script headers: first.pl
>
> If anyone could point me in the direction where I need to look, it would be
> greatly appriciated
It sounds a lot like you are missing the empty line that terminates
the header. This is the 'header' that initiates the transfer and
precedes the <html><head>... stuff. It is usually sent for you when
the server reads and sends out a .html file. But if you are running
a script or binary that is creating the content, you have to take care
of that little detail.
You need to start with a line something like:
Content-type: text/html\n\n
eg. in Perl, for example a print for the first of the data sent
would look like:
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
////jerry
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