well, i decided to jump into webserving for myself and i think i am having a problem in the configuration of the server. all the permissions are set correctly at 755 on the scripts and the cgi-bin directory. perl modules are installed but whenever i try to run a script made by anyone i get:

Server error!
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.
Error message:
Premature end of script headers: script1.pl
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster Error 500


Even when trying to excecute a simple script such as:
#!perl-w
#Script: plaintext.pl
use CGI ':standard';
print header('text/plain'),
"Nothing to it! Hello World!";

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What am i doing wrong? TIA Sly

In reply to Having problems configuring the server? by sstewart

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