in reply to Wanting Validation for Smacking my Sysadmin (500 error problem)

Before you can lay down that smack, you need to triple-check that the path to Perl really is /usr/bin/perl (and not something like /usr/local/bin/perl), and that the .htaccess in that directory includes 
  Options ExecCGI

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Re: Re: Wanting Validation for Smacking my Sysadmin (500 error problem)
by Petras (Friar) on Jan 23, 2003 at 11:54 UTC
    There is such a file now. I sent it as ASCII, but still I am not having any luck. Of course, it's my first .htaccess file. Would it be just a plain text file with the line

    Options ExecCGI

    Or are there any headers, etc. that need to be in place?

    How about file permissions? 755 might be too generous, but it should be okay, right?

    Thanks.

    Update: I thought there was such a file now. But it doesn't look like their is. Micro$oft Window$ won't let me save a file with only an extension--it want's a file name. I uploaded _.htaccess to the server, followed by mv _.htaccess .htaccess which I later realized made the file disapear. Any ideas for a newbie?

    Thanks.
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      The webserver must be configured to allow you to override "Options", or else, this won't do a thing. See this tutorial for an explanation.
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