Check your Apache error log. It's unlikely anything in your mysql log
will be useful here. Apache will print any STDERR messages to the Apache
error log. You shouldn't need your Apache logging at anything other than
the default logging level to be useful to debug your Perl CGI issue.
Jim
On 6/25/2020 2:58 PM, barry kimelman wrote:
Hello,
Thanks for your reply. I solved the not being able to run a Perl CGI
script issue. I now have several of my old Perl CGI scripts up and
running.
Now one of my other CGI scripts is failing badly. The mysql error log
does not show anything useful. All I see on my screen is a '500
internal server error'. I checked the syntax of my perl script and it
is ok.
Your message stated that setting "my log file level to debug" was a
good debugging idea. I have been trying to figure out how to
accomplish this task with no success. Which config file do I need to
change and what specific change do I need to make to the config file ?
Thanks/
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:15 AM angel Hall-Coulston
<rammstein...@me.com.invalid> wrote:
Try setting your log file level to debug, you will get far more
information. Also at the end of the 'log format' code in your
configuration file (easy double check by command 'httpd -V' which
will double check your conf file) add '%L' which when added to
both access_log file formats AND error_log formats will give
matches between the two easily found with the 'grep' command 'grep
"[long-scrambled-unique-characters-for-that-particular-error]
'*_log' . Make sure you first are in the log directory.
Another helpful tip… your apache comes with it’s VERY OWN manual
pages which when enabled in your 'includes' section of your config
file, will allow you to access MUCH quicker than going online,
where you will find everything you need to know.
Angel Hall-Coulston
Scotland.
On 24 Jun 2020, at 00:35, barry kimelman <perlmaste...@gmail.com
<mailto:perlmaste...@gmail.com>> wrote:
my system is an ubuntu 20.04 lts laptop.
I successfully installed apache2. I verified the installation by
visiting http://localhost:80 <http://localhost/>
Now I am having problems trying to run a Perl CGI script which I
had running under Windows 10 on Apache 2.4
I modified the sites-enabled/000-default.conf file by removing
the '#' from the start of the "Include
conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf" line. I then created the
/usr/lib/cgi-bin directory. I next put a small Perl CGI script
named "printenv.cgi" under /usr/lib/cgi-bin. I then restarted the
apache2 server. When I attempted to run my newly created CGI
script gy visiting localhost:80/cgi-bin/printenv.cgi
<http://localhost/cgi-bin/printenv.cgi> all that happened was I
received a "404 Not Found" error. I looked at the apache logfile
and it provided no further info.
I even tried using the "wget" command. same 404 error.
What have I done wrong?
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Barrry Kimelman
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Barrry Kimelman
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
