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Hi Monks, I have finished a cgi script and tested in on the command line. Then I put it into the cgi-bin on my web server, set the permissions to 755 owner root. When I execute the cgi script in the browser I get the following error:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was u
+nable to complete your request.
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I looked in the errorlog for the apache server and found the following error:


Thu Feb 12 02:02:41 1998] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec o
+f /var/www/cgi-bin/generateStatistics.cgi failed
Thu Feb 12 02:02:41 1998] [error] [client 213.237.88.236] Premature en
+d of script headers: /var/www/cgi-bin/generateStatistics.cgi
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Do any of you gurus know what could be wrong? I also executed the cgi script and redirected the output to out.html and I had no problem viewing it in the browser. Here is the cgi code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
open (IN_RESULT,"statistics.txt");
@IN_RESULT = <IN_RESULT>;
close (IN_RESULT);

@armyImages = ('"images/icon_army_dwarf.gif"',
               '"images/icon_army_empire.gif"',
               '"images/icon_army_lizard.gif"',
               '"images/icon_army_orcs.gif"',
               '"images/icon_army_skaven.gif"'
              );
              
print <<WEB_PAGE;
<html>
<head>
<title>Statistics</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+">
<STYLE>
<!--
A{text-decoration:none}
-->
</STYLE>
<style>
body 
{ 
scrollbar-base-color: #000000; 
} 
</style>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#E6941A" background="images/background2.
+gif">
<table width="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="0"
+>
  <tr> 
    <td width="6" height="6"><img src="images/menu_top_left_border.gif
+" width="6" height="6"></td>
    <td width="118" height="6"><img src="images/menu_top_border.gif" w
+idth="118" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="6"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="6"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="6"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="6"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="6"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="6"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="6"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="6"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="6"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="6"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="10" height="6"><img src="images/menu_top_right_border.g
+if" width="6" height="6"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td width="6" height="25"><img src="images/menu_side_border.gif" w
+idth="6" height="37"></td>
    <td width="118" height="25"><a href="javascript: window.open('stat
+istics_administrator.htm','','status=yes, width=600,height=300'); voi
+d('');"><img src="images/statistics_icon.gif" width="118" height="36"
+ border="0"></a></td>
    <td width="85" height="25"><img src="images/flag_massacre_victory.
+gif" width="85" height="36"></td>
    <td width="85" height="25"><img src="images/flag_major_victory.gif
+" width="85" height="36"></td>
    <td width="85" height="25"><img src="images/flag_minor_victory.gif
+" width="85" height="36"></td>
    <td width="85" height="25"><img src="images/flag_draw.gif" width="
+85" height="36"></td>
    <td width="85" height="25"><img src="images/flag_minor_defeat.gif"
+ width="85" height="36"></td>
    <td width="85" height="25"><img src="images/flag_major_defeat.gif"
+ width="85" height="36"></td>
    <td width="85" height="25"><img src="images/flag_massacre_defeat.g
+if" width="85" height="36"></td>
    <td width="85" height="25"><img src="images/flag_total_victories.g
+if" width="85" height="36"></td>
    <td width="85" height="25"><img src="images/flag_total_defeats.gif
+" width="85" height="36"></td>
    <td width="85" height="25"><img src="images/flag_total_battles.gif
+" width="85" height="36"></td>
    <td width="10" height="25"><img src="images/menu_side_border.gif" 
+width="6" height="37"></td>
  </tr>
WEB_PAGE
$imageCount = 0;
foreach $entry (@IN_RESULT)
   {
    @current = split (':',$entry);
print <<WEB_PAGE; 
  <tr> 
    <td width="6"><img src="images/menu_side_border.gif" width="6" hei
+ght="37"></td>
    <td width="118"><img src=@armyImages[$imageCount] width="85" heigh
+t="36"></td>
    <td width="85" align="center" valign="middle">@current[1]</td>
    <td width="85" align="center" valign="middle">@current[2]</td>
    <td width="85" align="center" valign="middle">@current[3]</td>
    <td width="85" align="center" valign="middle">@current[4]</td>
    <td width="85" align="center" valign="middle">@current[5]</td>
    <td width="85" align="center" valign="middle">@current[6]</td>
    <td width="85" align="center" valign="middle">@current[7]</td>
    <td width="85" align="center" valign="middle">@current[8]</td>
    <td width="85" align="center" valign="middle">@current[9]</td>
    <td width="85" align="center" valign="middle">@current[10]</td>
    <td width="10"><img src="images/menu_side_border.gif" width="6" he
+ight="37"></td>
  </tr>
WEB_PAGE
  $count++;
   }

print <<WEB_PAGE;
  <tr> 
    <td width="6" height="2"><img src="images/menu_buttom_left_border.
+gif" width="6" height="6"></td>
    <td width="118" height="2"><img src="images/menu_top_border.gif" w
+idth="118" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="2"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="2"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="2"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="2"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="2"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="2"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="2"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="2"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="2"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="85" height="2"><img src="images/menu_side_border_medium
+.gif" width="85" height="6"></td>
    <td width="10" height="2"><img src="images/menu_buttom_right_borde
+r.gif" width="6" height="6"></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</body>
</html>
WEB_PAGE
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Thanks!

In reply to Apache+cgi problem by RuneK

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