CGI Problems

dsb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've got Apache 1.3 installed on my home PC. I am able to access regular HTML pages but when I try to access a CGI script I get back Internal Server Error. I know that in most cases that means a problem with Premature end of script headers problem. However, when I looked in the error log for Apached I saw this:

[Mon Feb 19 15:55:27 2001] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] couldn't spawn c
+hild process: c:/program files/apache group/apache/cgi-bin/test.pl
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ok,ok...maybe Windows is the start of my problems. Regardless, I have to have this on my Windows partition so my girlfriend can use this Web-App. The code for the test script is exactly the code from Ovid's CGI Course except for the she-bang line, for the sake of testing.

#!c:\Perl\bin -wT
use strict;
use CGI;

my $query = CGI->new();

print $query->header( "text/html" ),
      $query->start_html(-title   => "My First CGI Script",
                         -bgcolor => "#ffffcc" ),
      $query->h1( "This is a pretty lame Web page" ),
      $query->p( "Who is this Ovid guy, anyway?" ),
      $query->end_html;
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

- kel -

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Re: CGI Problems by dws (Chancellor) on Feb 20, 2001 at 02:08 UTC
The `#!` line needs the full path to `perl.exe`. And use forward slashes.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: CGI Problems by arturo (Vicar) on Feb 20, 2001 at 02:39 UTC
Also, check your Apache config and make sure `Options +ExecCGI` [download] is turned on for your cgi-bin directory (while you're at it, make sure you have a `Directory` or `Location` entry for your cgi-bin directory!) And make sure that Apache has mod_cgi support compiled in (or that its available as a dll) -- this last is unlikely to be the problem if you got a precompiled binary. Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: CGI Problems by marius (Hermit) on Feb 20, 2001 at 02:09 UTC
Have you associated Perl with .pl files as mentioned in this node? -marius Update:*and as dws mentions, tack perl.exe onto your #! line so it looks like #!c:/perl/bin/perl.exe -wT	[reply]