Hi All,
I have written a perl cgi script which draws a image using the perl GD module. This scripts works fine when run form the command line. When I run this from browser, I get an internal server error. When I cheked the error logs, it tells me that it cannot locate GD module. Why is this happening. Does it need to set some thing to tell where the modules are located?

perl script simpleImage.cgi 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use GD;
use CGI ':standard';

# This creates a Web GIF image on the fly 

# create a new image 
$im = new GD::Image(1000,100); 
# allocate some colors 
 
        $white = $im ->colorAllocate(255,255,255);
        $black= $im ->colorAllocate(0,0,0);
        $red = $im ->colorAllocate(255,100,0);
        $blue= $im ->colorAllocate(0,150,255);
        $yellow= $im ->colorAllocate(255,200,0);
        $pink= $im ->colorAllocate(150,0,150);
        $im->filledRectangle(10,5,990,15,$pink);
        $im->arc(10,10,10,10,0,360,$black);
        $im->fill(10,10,$white);
        $im->arc(990,10,10,10,270,90,$black);
        $im->fillToBorder(990,10,$black,$pink);

# Convert the image to GIF and print it on standard output 
#binmode STDOUT;        
print "Content-type: image/gif\n\n"; 
print $im->gif;

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Address in the browser

http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/simpleImage.cgi

Error recorded in the log files 
[Fri Jul 29 00:25:57 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of
+ script headers: /home/nagesh
/apache/cgi-bin/simpleImage.cgi
Can't locate GD.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/
+i686-linux /usr/local/lib/per
l5/5.8.6 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux /usr/local/li
+b/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/
local/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /home/nagesh/apache/cgi-bin/simpleImag
+e.cgi line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/nagesh/apache/cgi-bin/simpl
+eImage.cgi line 3.

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Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Nagesh

fixed formatting by holli

In reply to Trouble with Perl CGI script by chakkaln

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