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08-05-2002

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Server Error 500. Total Newbie. Ugh.

Hi everybody...
I'm trying to run some very simple cgi scripts on my server whilst I learn perl. Today is day 3 of that process, so I apologize in advance for not having enough knowledge to ask the right questions.

Any program I try to execute gives me an Internal Server Error (500) message. Even something as simple as 'helloworld.cgi' or .pl.

I've tried running such a simple program so that I can get one program up and running. My troubleshooting so far:
i. is the computer on?...yup
ii. can i upload HTML files to the server and have them work ?...yup
iii. what are the permissions for the stock cgis on the server ? Do those work for my program ? ....nope.
1. Doublecheck: uploaded in ASCII ? ....yup
2. Correct path to perl ?.....yup, confirmed by sysadmin
3. path to program is cgi-bin/learnperl/helloworld.cgi.

So I chmod the folder learnperl to 755, and the program helloworld.cgi to 755. No dice. Try the both with 751. 777. No dice.

Try them with all combinatorial possibilities for permissions.

Not working.

Anybody out there see what I'm missing ?
I keep putting quarters in the jukebox but nothing's coming out.

Help!

Thanks...

-Pascal

p.s. FTP client is FETCH for the mac.

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cgi_destroy

cgi_destroy(3)							     cgi/cgi.h							    cgi_destroy(3)

NAME

       cgi_destroy  - deallocate the data associated with a CGI

SYNOPSIS

       #include <cgi/cgi.h>

       void cgi_destroy (CGI **cgi);

ARGUMENTS

       cgi - a pointer to a pointer to a CGI struct

DESCRIPTION

       cgi_destroy  will  destroy  all	the  data  associated with a CGI, which mostly means the associated HDF and removal of any files that were
       uploaded via multipart/form-data.  (Note that even in the event of a crash, these files will be deleted, as they were unlinked on  creation
       and only exist because of the open file pointer)

RETURN VALUE

       cgi - NULL on output

SEE ALSO

       cgi_debug_init(3),  cgi_parse(3),  cgi_destroy(3),  cgi_js_escape(3),  cgi_html_escape_strfunc(3), cgi_register_strfuncs(3), cgi_output(3),
       parse_rfc2388(3), cgi_url_validate(3), open_upload(3), cgi_cs_init(3), cgi_url_escape_more(3), cgi_html_strip_strfunc(3), cgi_neo_error(3),
       cgi_redirect(3),  cgi_filehandle(3),  cgi_register_parse_cb(3),	cgi_url_escape(3),  cgi_init(3), cgi_redirect_uri(3), cgi_cookie_clear(3),
       cgi_url_unescape(3), cgi_vredirect(3), cgi_display(3),  cgi_html_ws_strip(3),  cgi_error(3),  cgi_cookie_set(3),  cgi_text_html_strfunc(3),
       cgi_cookie_authority

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