in reply to 500 internal server error !!

Look at your servers error log, it should contain a better description than just "500".

You can also try to run your script on the command line first and see how it behaves.

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Re^2: 500 internal server error !!
by derby (Abbot) on Aug 20, 2008 at 11:11 UTC

    moritz is correct, a simple perl -c <script|module> will find the root cause (syntax error, missing modules) for the majority (but not all) 500 errors.

    -derby
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Re^2: 500 internal server error !!
by priti (Initiate) on Aug 20, 2008 at 12:00 UTC
    my error log show /tmp/sess_xxxxxx..... line 30 in filename line 30 is the PHP::Session->new() .It is throwing this error when it is not able to create the session hence 500 internal server error is coming... There is nothing else i can count on i don't know perl is difficult in this case the in-built functions are not that smooth to handle such condition either my knowledge is restricted .... i need some way to check whether session is alive or not??? how one can do this ??? Please help me to come out of it. !!!!
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      Maybe you want something like this: 
      my $s = eval { PHP::Session->new() };
if ($s) {
    # I CAN HAZ SESSION
} else {
    # there was an error
}

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      Is it perl or PHP ??
      []s, HTH, Massa (κς,πμ,πλ)
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      Hey, easy with the bangs. Now, what is the "....."? It is the most important part of the error message...
      []s, HTH, Massa (κς,πμ,πλ)
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