Hi guys,

Need help in solving the following problem :

I have an apache web server running with perl 5.8.4 on a Linux Redhat 9.0 box. In the cgi-bin folder, i have this file test.pl with the following content : 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<H1>Hello World</H1>\n";

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Just a simple script to help illustrate the problem I'm facing.

When I run this from the browser, it returns an INTERNAL SERVER PROBLEM. Log from apache shows "Premature end of script headers: test.pl".

Now... I have searched thru this site and other PERL sites, and gone thru all the steps the others have suggested, but still things didn't help.

The following are some further testing done by me :

- If I run the script directly using "./test.pl", it gives me the following result : 
[root@www cgi-bin]# ./test.pl
: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

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- If I run the script using "perl test.pl", it gives me the correct output : 
[root@www cgi-bin]# perl test.pl
Content-type: text/html

<H1>Hello World</H1>

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I checked the path of PERL and that's correctly entered. So couldn't be any path issues.

- If I edit the script to add in a "-w" after the "perl" at the first line, everything runs fine, even from the browser. Here's the updated script : 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<H1>Hello World</H1>\n";

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Is there anything that I have not done correctly? Why is it that I require a "-w" in this server, while not in any of the rest of my apache servers with PERL??

Anybody can shed some light into me?

In reply to bad interpreter: No such file or directory by beng

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