On Dec 10, 2001 at 13:40, Christopher L. Filkins wrote:

>I have the following perl script:
>
>#!/usr/bin/perl

Check the path. Everything you wrote points to a bad shebang line.

>print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
>print "hello world!\n";

If the path is correct, try outputting proper HTML. With tags and all.

>Permissions are set at 755

Correct.

>When I try and access it from a browser at /cgi-bin/script.pl I get
>a 500 error.  At the command line I get the following:

>%n@%m:%/> ./script.pl
>./script.pl: Command not found
>%n@%m:%/>

Indicating a bad shebang line.

>%n@%m:%/> perl -w script.pl
>hello world!
>%n@%m:%/>

type this:

$ which perl

And put that path in the shebang line.

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