I have a cgi which calls a MySQL database. It runs perfectly on Windows Server 2003 with Apache 1.3. However on Windows Server with Apache 2.2 I get an Internal Server Error as follows:Bad file descriptor; don't know how to spawn child process: E:/Dirctory Name/cgiprogram.pl is not executable; ensure interpreted scripts have "#! first line.

Here's the beginning of the code:

#!C:/Perl/bin/perl -w
use DBI; 
use CGI ':standard'; 
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
# constants

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:jobs_db','jobseeker','jobseekerpassw
+d')
or die "Connection Error: $DBI::errstr\n";
$sth = $dbh->prepare ("DELETE FROM jobs WHERE DateAdded < DATE_SUB(NOW
+(), INTERVAL 30 DAY)");
$sth->execute ();

my $pagesize = 5;

# variables
my $AccountID=param('AccountID');
my $locn= param('Country');
my $Function = param('Specialty');
my $reqpage  = param('reqpage') || 1;

if 

($Function eq ""||$locn eq "Select")

{

print "The FORM is INCOMPLETE. Please Go Back And Fill In All Fields."
+;

}

else {

# connect to database
my $dbh = get_dbh();

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Why doesn't this run on the new server? Any insight will be sincerely appreciated.

In reply to Bad File Descriptor by Milti

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