Dear Monks,
I have a perl-Mechanize script running on my server that works perfectly. It's a very simple script that reads in some POST variables, then grabs one of my blog pages and submits the values in comment form. I have gotten it to work on my server, but I need to put the script now on a different server and am having problems with it.

When I run the script in the command line on the new server (with hard coded values), it works fine. But if I call it as a form 'action' method from a website, the script returns an internal server error. It's the exact same script but it runs differently on two different servers. I checked the versions of all three of the libraries that it uses:

LWP::Simple
WWW::Mechanize
CGI
HTTP::Cookies

And have updated all of these libraries on the new server so that I now have the latest version of these libs.

Could it be a setting in Apache that is causing the problem? If so, what should I look for? I need to get this to work on my new server and am not sure how to go about solving this.

In reply to Script works differently on two different servers by Anonymous Monk

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