I take it you are developing on win32. On Unix, which is probably your ISP's platform OS, a bungled shebang will definitely result in a fatal error. The shebang line tells the shell to run the text following using the program named in it. If that path is broken, your script is broken.

Update:

The result of running the script is "Premature end of script headers". This is the error that webservers typically return whenever a CGI script dies before it can output valid HTML headers, which is exactly what is happening in this case. You have already done this, so you know, but for anyone else reading this who might have a similar problem, the next step is to run the script on the command line *on the same platform*. Then you'll see another slightly cryptic message such as "ksh: {scriptname}: not found". Typos in shebangs trip up everyone from time to time. ;)

In reply to Re: Re: There isn't anything wrong with this, is there? by virtualsue
in thread There isn't anything wrong with this, is there? by George_Sherston

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