William, I haven't tried this, but it is certainly an interesting idea. Not sure what the problem is offhand, but you might want to try an even simpler test script, maybe something like:
#!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\nHello World\n"; You mentioned that you could run it from the command line, can you also run the perl script directly from the cgi-bin directory? Also, do you have mod_perl installed? If so (or if installing it is an option), you may want to check out Apache::PAR (http://search.cpan.org/~nbyrd/Apache-PAR/), which is designed for running PAR archives under Apache. I am definitly interested in hearing how this turns out for you. I have an item on my TODO to get a version of Apache::PAR for use with regular CGI, including as an executable archive. Regards, Nathan On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 06:43:42 -0800, William Hayden wrote: > > I'm having some trouble with an application that I ran > pp on. I can run the > resulting application on the command line, but when I > access it via a web > browser and Apache runs it, the script fails. The error > message in the > Apache error log indicates the problem is a compilation > error in the script. > The script follows: > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > > > use CGI; # load > CGI routines > > $q = new CGI; # create > new CGI object > > print $q->header, # create > the HTTP header > > $q->start_html('hello world'), # start > the HTML > > $q->h1('hello world'), # level > 1 header > > $q->end_html; # end > the HTML > > > > 1; > > > > As you can see, I went back to a simple "hello world" > script for testing > purposes. > > > > Here is the error message in the Apache error log: > > > > criteria_view.cgi: execution of criteria_view.cgi > failed - aborting with -1. > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 660. > > [Thu Nov 20 17:02:41 2003] [error] [client > 10.131.1.146] Premature end of > script headers: > /home/httpd/html/wdh/toolbox/criteria_view.cgi > > > > > > Here is the command line I used for pp: > > > > pp --verbose 5 -o /tmp/criteria_view.cgi -I . -I > ${LIBS_PATH} -I > ${LIBS_PATH}/ToolboxDB criteria_view.cgi > > > > Once I use the above command, I copy > /tmp/criteria_view.cgi to > /home/httpd/html/wdh/toolbox/criteria_view.cgi so > Apache can find it. > > > > In my tests with running it from the command line, I > log in as user "nobody" > since that is the user Apache will run the script as. > Again, the executable > produced by pp runs from the command line, but not when > Apache runs the > script. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > > William D. Hayden > > Keynote Sytems, Inc. > > (972) 578-7429 > > > > > This email message, and any attachments to it, are for > the sole use of the > intended recipients, and may contain confidential and > privileged > information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure > or distribution of > this email message or its attachments is prohibited. > If you are not the > intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply > email and destroy all > copies of the original message.
