Apache directives - solution

Thanks so much for the assistance on this one. Thanks Dan (solved!), Jeff,
and Rich (I'll get a copy of Apache Server Unleashed next trip to the
bookstore - thanks).

My transfer program was sending the script as binary instead of ascii. When
I typed in the program directly on the server instead of transferring it, it
worked perfectly from my browser.  This is normally one of the first things
I check, but it prints out OK on the server (so the difference is not
visible), and executes from the command prompt on the server.  So it's
Apache that cares if it was transferred as a binary instead of ascii - not
Perl as I had always assumed.

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,
Glenn





> Symptoms:
> -Stripped down perl script for testing purposes only (a few print
> statements,
> no file access)
> -called from browser produces an internal server error.
> -running the same script from my live webserver works OK.
> -runs OK from command prompt.
> -checked the path to perl, OK
> -chmod 755
> -other compiled (C or C++) cgi programs in subdirectory runs OK from
> browser.
> error log shows:
> [Mon Apr 18 09:28:35 1994] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of
> /home/www/glenn/cgi-bin/testmort.cgi failed
>
> directives from httpd.conf:
> <Directory "/home/www/glenn">
>     AllowOverride All
>     Options Indexes ExecCGI
>     AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
>

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