hi there, was looking for some help. I have created a login page in html and a perl/cgi script to check the password entry but when i submit my form i keep encountering an internal server error. This is my perl code: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -Tw

use CGI qw( :standard -debug);

$testUsername = param( "username" );
$testPassword= param( "password" );

open( PW, "password.txt" ) ||
die( "The database could not be opened." );
while ( $line = <PW> ) {
chomp( $line );
( $username, $password ) = split( ",", $line );
chop($password);
if ( $testUsername eq $username ){
$userVerified = 1;
if ( $testPassword eq $password ) {
$passwordVerified = 1;
}
}
}
close( PW );

print header();
print start_html("Checking password!");
if ( $userVerified&& $passwordVerified ) {
print "Permissionhas been granted, $testUsername .<br>";
print "Enjoy the site!< br>"
}
elsif ( $userVerified && !$passwordVerified ) {
print "You entered an invalid password. <br>";
print "Access has been denied. <br>";
}
else {
print "You have been denied access to this site.<br>";
}
print end_html();

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Any ideas why this is happening? Thanks for many suggestions, matt

2006-07-14 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines

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Original title: 'server error'

In reply to CGI Login script error by mattdope

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