"George A. Fitch III" wrote:
>
> Oh Noble and Wise Gurus of Perl,
>
> I'm having problems running Perl scripts on Apache. I installed
> Appache 1.3.12, had Perl 522 already installed. The web server
> works fine with pages, and it can find the script, but it can't
> execute it for some reason. The message the web browser gives
> is:
>
> Internal Server Error
>
> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
> to complete your request.
>
> In the error log I found:
>
> [Fri Oct 27 15:43:55 2000] [error] [client 198.186.19.208] (2)No such file
> or directory: couldn't spawn child process: g:/apache
> group/apache/cgi-bin/test.pl
>
> Which is different from an error message regarding a missing
> script:
>
> [Fri Oct 27 12:36:12 2000] [error] [client 198.186.19.208] (2)No such file
> or directory: script not found or unable to stat: g:/apache
> group/apache/cgi-bin/gjh
>
> I've read my Apache and Perl books, and I haven't found what
> causes this error or how to fix it. I suspect it has something
> with mapping .pl to Perl.exe, but I can't figure out how to
> do that. Is this what mod_perl fixes? Or is that something
> different?
Do you have a proper shebang line in your script?
Check my mini-FAQ on Apache install on my Freeyellow/Webjump sites.
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