On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:28:30AM -0400, Penguin Lover David Relson squawked: > After saving your script to /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/makeindex.perl > and running "chmod +x ...", I pointed firefox at > http://localhost/cgi-bin/makeindex.perl and got the following: > > Internal Server Error > > The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and > was unable to complete your request. > > Please contact the server administrator, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and inform > them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have > done that may have caused the error. > > More information about this error may be available in the server > error log. > > Looking in /var/log/apache2/error_log I found > > [Wed Jul 04 10:22:06 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] malformed > header from script. Bad header=<head><title>Index of /usr/sha: > makeindex.perl > > > Looking at other simple scripts lead me to add > > print "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n\n"; >
I doubt that his script (which he mentions is to be run in cron) is meant to actually be placed in the cgi-bin directory for apache. It would certainly be annoying to need to have an apache server running just to read documentation. W -- When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 208 days, 15:01 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
