Well, if you are able, run the script from the command line. If your program fails to compile, that may be the problem.

Quick checklist:

Another thing to do (in test only, don't use this for production), is to add the following line to the script: 
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

[download]
If your script actually gets as far as compiling and the program tries to run, this will output the error messages to your browser, which aids debugging. Make sure that you take this out when you move the code to production as there is no sense in giving hackers additional information.

From what you are describing, it sounds like the problem is not with your code, but with the configuration. You have your code in the wrong place or something.

Is there any chance that you made corrections to your code that you forgot to upload to the server?

In reply to (Ovid) RE: RE: Re: First Script by Ovid
in thread First Script by Smash8

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