At 10:52 AM 5/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I am trying to append to an existing database and my cgi keeps coming up
>with an Internal Server Error. I've looked this over many times with
>different books as references, and I can't see what is wrong with it. My
>form method is POST. Here is my code:
Shawn, one thing I recommend is not using that old cgi-lib.pl and use the
CGI.pm library that now comes standard with every Perl distribution. It
abstracts a lot of HTML elements so you can treat them as widgets like you
would programming a GUI.
There are a lot of things that can go wrong with a cgi script that may not
necessarily indicate an error in your code. Here's a checklist you should
use whenever a CGI script fails in this manner, and is also good
information to provide someone else if you are asking for help:
* What do the web server logs say?
* What web server are you using?
* Does the CGI script have execute rights?
* Does the directory the CGI script lives in have permission to execute
scripts via the server configuration?
* Does the user & group you are running the web server under (i.e.,
nobody:nobody) have permission to execute the script in question or
trying to write something where it doesn't have permission?
* What happens if you run it from the command-line? CGI.pm scripts can be
run from the command line, and you can pass POST variables to it.
* Does the Perl script use -w and 'use strict' to help in diagnosing
errors?
* Is the #! line at the top of the script actually pointing to the correct
path for the Perl interpreter?
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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