in reply to Re: Re: 500 Internal Server Error - Using ActiveState perl
in thread 500 Internal Server Error - Using ActiveState perl

You should load C:/perl58/bin/perl58.dll, and you definitely should install mod_perl.

To get mod_perl:

Official Website: http://perl.apache.org/

To install the binary package (the quick and easy way) - open a CMD shell and then type the following:
ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/mod_perl.ppd

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You also need to download the mod_perl.so module from here -> http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/x86/. Drop this file under C:/Apache2/modules directory.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: 500 Internal Server Error - Using ActiveState perl
by perleager (Pilgrim) on Jan 07, 2004 at 04:46 UTC
    Okay thank you,

    Would installing this solve the 500 problem you think? What if I'm not running apache?

    Thanks,
    Anthony
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      Would installing this solve the 500 problem you think?
      Would drinking some water solve it? You need to read the documentation for whatever webserver you're running, and you need to read your webservers error logs. Only you can help yourself.
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      Don't tell me you are running IIS? ;-)

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      Have a look at PerlIS (more commonly known as 'Perl for ISAPI', which comes as part of the default install with ActivePerl) from ActiveState. If you're using IIS then change the shebang line to: 
      #!/usr/bin/perlis.dll

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      If you then need to switch to Apache, without changing the shebang line, find the following line in the httpd.conf and ensure it's uncommented: 
      ScriptInterpreterSource registry

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      This will ensure you run the script against the Perl binary referenced in the registry and will ignore the shebang line. I use this to switch between IIS and Apache all the time.

      --
      Barbie | Birmingham Perl Mongers | http://birmingham.pm.org/

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        Why do you use perlis.dll in the shebang line? The standard /usr/bin/perl makes much more sense. Wth "ScriptInterpreterSource registry", the shebang line isn't used. If you have perlis.dll for .cgi in the registry, then perlis.dll might work under Apache but there is no benefit over perl.exe. On Unix, perlis.dll doesn't exist unless you make a symlink. Using /usr/bin/perl means you CGI script can run under Apache Win32, Apache Cygwin, Apache Windows, IIS CGI, and IIS ISAPI without changes.
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