Cgi

szupie

Mar 23 2005, 10:25 PM

I don't know why, but I just can't get my CGI stuff to work! I even tested the most basic perl script which says

CODE

print "Hello!";

, but it still doens't work! Any file, even txt files, put in my /public_html/cgi-bin/ directory gets a 500 Internal Server Error. Do I have to configure my cgi-bin in my cpanel? Is /public_html/cgi-bin/ the right directory? Does CGI work for anyone here?

So many questions, so little time...

vizskywalker

Mar 23 2005, 11:14 PM

Szupie-
First, find your path to Perl. This can be found on the cpanel main page in the left vertical box under general server info. Then substitute that into the following code.

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#!/usr/bin/perl #this should take the format of "#!yourpathtoperl" without the quotes
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; #needed to indicate the start of page output
print "Hello!"; #print output on the page

Also, the default permissions of a file are 644, (User: Read and Write, Group: Read, World: Read). Be sure to change this to 755 (User: Read, Write, and Execute, Group: Read and Execute, World: Read and Execute).

szupie

Mar 24 2005, 11:18 AM

Those were the things that I have done before, but still got the Error 500. I strongly don't think that it's the problem with my scripts, because even plain txt files fail to execute in the cgi-bin. I think that it must be something with the configuration. Does Perl work for you here?

Rudy

Mar 24 2005, 11:58 AM

I run a cgi guest book in perl and it works fine. In the past I found that the local path was slightly different with some servers and that was the main problem I had with getting scripts to work.

I have a little program called testmy.cgi that is placed in the cgi-bin to test scripts for you. I will be happy to give you a copy. It was freeware when it came out, but it was merged with another program the guy wrote and marketed.

szupie

Mar 24 2005, 01:25 PM

OK. How do I get this testmy.cgi thing?

miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG

Mar 24 2005, 03:55 PM

Hey.. if you cant find perl - try this command: which appname

CONSOLE

shell> which perl
/usr/bin/perl

As you can see from the above example it'll clearly point you to the directory in which the app exists. Usually all perl scripts need one line (the first line in the script, see vizskywalkers example) that points to the perl interpreter.. the line somewhat looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
Even if you see that comment sign (#) at the beginning of this line, do not remove it. It's needed. This lines tells where to locate perl and as I said, has to be the first line in any perl script. Make sure this points to the right location of perl else your script wont work.

szupie

Mar 25 2005, 12:16 PM

Hmm... I don't have shell access to my account yet, so I can't do that... And I did find Perl on the left side onf my Cpanel. I wonder why only trekkie and I can't get our Perl to work...

mastercomputers

Mar 25 2005, 12:20 PM

QUOTE(szupie @ Mar 26 2005, 01:16 AM)

Hmm... I don't have shell access to my account yet, so I can't do that... And I did find Perl on the left side onf my Cpanel. I wonder why only trekkie and I can't get our Perl to work...

chmod 755 all .cgi .pl scripts, use .pl extension and upload as ASCII.
chmod 755 cgi-bin

CODE

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hi";

szupie

Mar 25 2005, 12:52 PM

... Nope, still the same error. I've done chmod everytime after I upload my cgi and perl files, and check that it was done in ASCII mode. Is there something that I don't understand? Do these posts have some meaning in them that I don't see? They all seem really similar, but not really helping to solve my problem... Thanks for all the help...

Cgi - Does it work for anyone?

Cgi - Does it work for anyone?