I am required to mention that you might consider programming Perl with #!/usr/bin/perl -w, use strict, and (in this case) use CGI. These may make your life easier in the future.

But to your immediate question, why don't you try writing a quick command-line-only version of this? Example: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $gpgpath = "/usr/bin/gpg";
my $gpguser = "xxxxxxxx\@xxxxxxxxx.com";

my $filenum = 'set_to_test_path';

$gpgcommand = "$gpgpath --batch --always-trust --eatr -a -r $gpguser -
+o tmpMessages/$filenum.enc -e";

print $gpgcommand, "\n";

my $gpgresults = `$gpgcommand`;

print $gpgresults, "\n";

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That way Apache isn't interfering. You can also test your CGI scripts from a command line (so that Apache configuration is not the issue), by running this with perl script.pl. You will have to enter any form information by hand key=value and press return, then this will dump output to STDOUT. Either of these methods will allow you to see the warnings (provided you add -w to your shebang line), which may be very informative. Don't forget to execute these using the same login that the Apache process will have.

In reply to (ichi) Re: CGI won't execute GPG properly... by ichimunki
in thread CGI won't execute GPG properly... by eoPh

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