[freeipdb-users] Re: server error (2)

[Ben April]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 02:01:37PM -0700, Montgomery Newcom wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Giaretta Gerardo wrote:
> 
> > well, I had the same error with the test-cgi Apache file, but
> > changing permissions to 777 to test-cgi file, it works.
> 
> 777 is not the answer.  755 should be more than enough.
> 
> > I tried do the same to admin.cgi and to the entire correspondant
> > directory, but nothing happens.
> > Is it a FreeIPdb or an Apache error?
> 
> It's an Apache error saying that the script died before it sent
> "Content-type: text/html\n\n".  There are several things that could cause
> this.  Check the httpd-error log for a more detailed error message.
> 
> -monte

A 

perl -w -c admin.cgi 

will alert you to a problem in the cgi itself.

"admin.cgi syntax OK" is the expected result.

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