cgi-wrapper???

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

I'm developing a site on a Cobalt RaQ2. My code includes the following:

use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;
use DBI;
use strict;
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When I tail my error log after running my script, I see the following:

[Fri Apr 28 11:11:22 2000] [warn] [client 209.179.110.221] handler "cg
+i-wrapper"
 not found for: /home/sites/site3/web/index.cgi
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If I remove the use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/; then I get an error on the web page, and the following in the log:

[Fri Apr 28 11:20:09 2000] [error] [client 209.179.110.221] malformed 
+header from script. 
Bad header=Use of uninitialized value at : /usr/cgiwrap/cgiwrap
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Any idea what is going on or what I'm doing wrong?

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Re: cgi-wrapper??? by Punto (Scribe) on Apr 29, 2000 at 03:11 UTC
Check cobalt's knowledgebase (kb.cobaltnet.com), they tell you how to set up a debugger, you can copy the script to *.pld and you get all the errors and runtime information on the browser. Sometimes is better than running the script from telnet.	[reply]
Re: cgi-wrapper??? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 28, 2000 at 23:38 UTC
Are you using Apache? Check your httpd.conf file for an AddHandler line referring to cgi-wrapper. That sounds like a web server configuration to me. Can you run your script successfully from the command line? (CGI.pm emulates a web environment when you do this.)	[reply]
RE: Re: cgi-wrapper??? by cei (Monk) on Apr 28, 2000 at 23:45 UTC
The httpd.conf file has `AddHandler cgi-wrapper .cgi AddHandler cgi-wrapper .pl AddHandler server-parsed .shtml AddType text/html .shtml` [download] in it. I debugged my code enough from the commandline that I was able to get rid of the fatal error when the Carp was not in place, so I feel better about my code in general now, but I still don't know why the WARN shows up in the logs...	[reply] [d/l]
Re: cgi-wrapper??? by zaphod.nu (Scribe) on Apr 29, 2000 at 03:58 UTC
I'd check out the /usr/cgiwrap/cgiwrap script... That script appears to have some errors in it, you could remove the warning tag from the perl bin line. That would probably make the script run...	[reply]