I am trying to setup the apache web server on a linux fedora platform. Everything seems to be working with the exception of executing a perl script when invoked from a webpage. Every time I try to execute my perl script from my webpage I get an "500 Internal Server Error" and the following error logs:

(13)Permission denied: exec of '/cgi-bin/test.pl' failed
Premature end of script headers: test.pl

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I've triple checked the permissions of the cgi-bin directory and the perl script and they look fine...

drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root     4096 Jul  1 17:38 cgi-bin
[root@localhost cgi-bin]# ll
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 159 Jul  1 17:38 test.pl

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I've verified the location of my cgi-bin directory is correct. When I remove test.pl I get a "404 Not Found" error instead of the server error. I also verified the script runs fine from the command line. My script is very basic and intended only to verify I can execute perl scripts. Code is below...

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use warnings;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "testing testing\n";
exit;

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Any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to Premature end of script headers error by huklberry

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