500 error on CGI scripts

[Keral_Patel]

Hello friends,

I have one script that uses CGI.

But when uploaded it gave me 500 error.

So I decided to upload just a simple file something like this.

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello<br><br>";
print "<br><br>\n";

But it is still giving me 500 error.

I have checked :
1) That the URL is not case sensitive.
2) That the file permission is 755 and the cgi-bin directory is also 755.
3) I have checked that there is a ScriptAlias for the particular domain in httpd.conf
4) Plus I have checked that the script above is also working on another shared server but not on this server.
5) And yes the script was uploaded in ASCII.

So I don't know exactly how to fix this. Can someone help me or give me some idea what should I do next.

Thanks.

 

[TwistMyArm]

Check your Apache error log. If you see a 500 error, nine times out of ten there's a meaningful error message in your Apache log.

 

[DomainReseller]

What method are you using to upload the file(s)?

 

[weblord]

try on command line: ($ is your prompt)

$ perl -wc scriptname.pl

it will track script's syntax error without running it if not
then make sure you only upload to domain.com/cgi-bin/

also make sure this path is correct:
#!/usr/bin/perl

on ssh run this command:
$ which perl

to locate your perl's path

Hello friends,

I have one script that uses CGI.

But when uploaded it gave me 500 error.

So I decided to upload just a simple file something like this.

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello<br><br>";
print "<br><br>\n";

But it is still giving me 500 error.

I have checked :
1) That the URL is not case sensitive.
2) That the file permission is 755 and the cgi-bin directory is also 755.
3) I have checked that there is a ScriptAlias for the particular domain in httpd.conf
4) Plus I have checked that the script above is also working on another shared server but not on this server.
5) And yes the script was uploaded in ASCII.

So I don't know exactly how to fix this. Can someone help me or give me some idea what should I do next.

Thanks.