[H-GEN] CGI internal server error

[q]

Nod. This stuff bites. Lots.

Suggestions :

(1) add the line "use diagnostics;"

This will make anything in the server error logs give more detailed answers.

(2)
Also try "use strict;", which although being COMPLETELY an^H^H^^H^HH unfriendly
about code, it will generally give some clues about where stuff is looking
weird to the parser.

summary:

check permissions, check server error logs.  (If you can't find the logs,
check in the httpd.conf for something like "ErrorLog".



regards,

-q

On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:36:39PM +1000, Luke Grant wrote:
> Ok,
>    So i have written this CGI in Perl(it wasn't my language choice ok so
> no flames about using perl as an excuse for not doing string
> manipulation.) Anyway, when it is being called by the browser i am getting
> an "Internal Server Error". Generaly i have found that this problem means
> i have an error in my code but when i run  $ perl -w userlist.cgi the
> output is exactly what it should be. I also checked the access.conf file
> for httpd to see that ExecCGI was set for that directory.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> Luke
> 
> 
> 
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> Luke.G at uq.net.au
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