Chintan Kachhi wrote:
Hello,
I just installed apache http server version 2.2 on my local machine. I
copied a sample hello world perl script under the cgi-bin directory of the
Apache installation folder and named it first.pl. When I put
http://hostnamein the web browser url, it shows that the server is
installed, since it
displays the message, '*It works!'. *However when I try to run the script
typing the following in the browser: http://hostname/cgi-bin/first.pl , it
gives me the error: 500 Internal Server ErrorInternal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, ad...@hostname and inform them of
the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have
caused the error.
So, have you done that ?
;-)
(*)
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Looking through the error log, it shows me the following message : [Wed Jul
01 13:33:18 2009] [error] [client 10.184.226.251] (OS 3)The system cannot
find the path specified. : couldn't create child process: 720003: first.pl
[Wed Jul 01 13:33:18 2009] [error] [client 10.184.226.251] (OS 3)The system
cannot find the path specified. : couldn't spawn child process: C:/Apache
Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-bin/first.pl
Aha, so it is Windows !
Is there something that I am missing or doing wrong?
What you did above was correct, but maybe you are missing this part :
1) did you install perl on that machine ?
If not, download and install from here :
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/
2) if/when you installed perl, make sure that the first line of your
script looks like :
#!c:/perl/bin/perl.exe
(or wherever perl.exe is)
then try again.
And welcome to the world of Apache + perl. It's fun. Really, you'll see.
(*) you can change that address in the Apache configuration file. Look
for "ServerAdmin".
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