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i have recently found out that for some reason no cgi scripts will run on my web host. i have got the support desk onto this and they are having a hard time finding the problem which is somewhere in apache. thanks for all your help but i think i can leave it to my *NIX tech admin now. cheers -----Original Message----- From: drieux [mailto:drieux@wetware.com] Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 3:27 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: GoryDetails on: error log message On Saturday, April 27, 2002, at 03:08 , Mat Harrison wrote: > right, i am back. Let me define this 'one': > > The script returns the output i mentioned in the last most on both servers > when execute as follows: > > #perl check2.cgi > > but only my local development webserver allows it to run via a web > browser. > it does not work via a web browser if i execute it on my web host. now lets move along and make sure that it will execute on it's own, not as the 'input text file' to perl but as #./check2.cgi this will mean that the file is at least executable by you. I prefer to put them up as chmod 755 - this way they can be owned by nobody:daemon - and I can still run them as a member of another group.... [jeeves:~/perl/CGI-Beg] drieux% ls -l sill* -rwxr-xr-x 1 drieux house 252 Apr 26 09:32 sillyRedirect.cgi [jeeves:~/perl/CGI-Beg] drieux% Then we evolve into the second round of the questions - namely the differences between your 'local development webserver' and the 'webserver' on the 'web host'. what worries me here is that your 'development environment' is allowing 'text' to be 'run' - rather than requiring that it be an executable file..... [jeeves:~/perl/CGI-Beg] drieux% ls -l fork* -rw-r--r-- 1 drieux house 736 Apr 26 09:53 forkProblem.pl [jeeves:~/perl/CGI-Beg] drieux% that code will work with the perl forkProblem.pl but not with ./forkProblem.pl Hence if your development system is 'rigged' to do some sort of 'read the file extension' and pass the text to the appropriate interpreter - then it is masking the permission problem.... The next problem of course is that yourJackBootedFascistWebAdmin has disabled 'cgi' from 'user accounts' - and hence will require that you install it in the canononical cgi-bin.... but first things first. ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscribe@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-help@perl.org