Let me start off saying I have searched Perlmonks as well as the internets for answers. Obviously none were found.

Now, I have a Perl script, 'index.pl', that I am using as the home page of a website. I wrote it using CGI::Pretty and DBI (as well as CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser) - so don't bother suggesting that; it does not output anything other than 500 Internal Server Error). I have chmodded it to 755 as well - so it would be pointless to suggest that. I have tested another perl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use strict;

use DBI;
use CGI::Pretty;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "This is a URL test";
[download]

Which printed "This is a URL test". I tried moving the print $query->header; in index.pl to the fourth line (right after I use CGI) to no avail. I tested the syntax with the -c run time operator and Perl had no complaints. I checked the log file and it stated Premature end of script headers: index.pl which did not help at all because I am told (by the internets) that that error could be sundry problems.

I think I covered all the automated responses...

So - I ask (not limited to but including) you: what do I need to do to fix this issue?

Let me clear a few things up in case the solution is obvious and I have been looking at the code too long:

• This first print statement is

  print $query->header,
          $query->start_html(-title => $headertitle,
                              -head => meta({-http_equiv => 'Content-Typ
  +e', -content => 'text/html'}),
                              -meta => { 'description' => $metadesc, 'ke
  +ywords' => $metakeyw },
                              -style => {'src' => $cssfile},
  
          );
  [download]

• I use $query->div({-id => 'main'}, for declaring the id (as well as all parameters in the script), rather than $query->div({id => 'main'},. Please note that the appended comma is just part of the copypasta.
• I have the if ($query->param()) { part of the code before the printing of the HTML to make it easier to read.
• My hosting company is Dreamhost and I have run various .pl and .cgi scripts before.

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Update (15 hours after initial post): Got it working. I used ikegami's method of commenting everything out et cetera and found out the ftp client I was using failed at chmodding. Thanks for your help.

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