"Materialised" <materialised@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:bonv8q$1glnsd$1@ID-204621.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Brian Wakem wrote:
> > "Materialised" <materialised@privacy.net> wrote in message
> > news:bont9t$1fv8ts$1@ID-204621.news.uni-berlin.de...
> >
> >>Hi Everyone,
> >>
> >>I am having trouble running perl scripts from my user directories.
> >>Here is my userdir setup in my httpd.conf file
> >>
> >>UserDir public_html
> >>
> >><Directory /home/*/public_html>
> >> AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
> >> Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch ExecCGI
> >> <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
> >> Order allow,deny
> >> Allow from all
> >> </Limit>
> >> <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
> >> Order deny,allow
> >> Deny from all
> >> </LimitExcept>
> >></Directory>
> >>
> >>I have ExecCGI in there, but for some reason I can even run a simple
> >>perl script such as the following
> >>
> >>#!/usr/bin/perl
> >>
> >>
> >>print <<"DOC";
> >>content-type: text/html\n\n
> >>print <html>\n
> >>print <h1>Hello World</h1>\n
> >>print </html>\n
> >>
> >>
> >>DOC
> >
> >
> >
> > Why are you putting print and \n in a here doc? That should be;
> >
> > print <<DOC;
> > Content-type: text/html
> >
> >
> > <html>
> > <h1>Hello World</h1>
> > </html>
> > DOC
> >
> > A newline in a heredoc is a literal newline, you don't need to add \n,
and
> > the "print"'s are certainly not necessary.
> >
> > You may be able to run that script now, I don't know, you didn't tell us
> > what kind of error you were getting.
> >
> The error im getting is
>
> Internal Server Error
>
> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
> unable to complete your request.
>
> Please contact the server administrator, root@purehacker.com and inform
> them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done
> that may have caused the error.
>
> More information about this error may be available in the server error
log.
> Apache/2.0.48 (Unix) mod_perl/1.99_10 Perl/v5.6.1 PHP/4.3.4 Server
>
> All permissions are setup correctly though.
Change the script as I suggested, you are not printing a proper header which
will cause the Internal Sever Error message that you are seeing.
--
Brian Wakem