Installing Perl Script

[newsiness]

I uploaded perl script into directory http://headlinesmalaysia.com/cgi-bin/a.pl
If you click on the url, it shows 500 Internal Server Error.

I contacted the hosting admin, he confirms that my hosting supports perl.
Any idea??? Thanks for the help...

 

[enlytend]

Did you check that the path to the Perl interperter in the script (something like "#!/usr/local/bin/perl" on the first line) matches the path to Perl on your server?

 

[newsiness]

I have checked my script...it is #!/usr/local/bin/perl

 

[enlytend]

OK ... if you're certain the path to Perl in your script matches the actual path on your server, then ...

Is the first output from your script an http header? (like ... "Content-type: text/html")

Try putting this after the first line of your script (i.e. after the path to the perl interpreter) - it should give you more information about the error:

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

Gotta run to do some "real work" - hope this helps!

 

[newsiness]

enlytend, thanks for the help...PM sent to you.

 

[monaco]

Did you also make sure to chmod +x the script so it's executable?