perl cgi on Cobalt Qube2

External Since: Sep 25, 2004 Posts: 2

Hi,

I'm running a personal web-site from the 'public site' directory
/home/groups/home directory on my qube.
This works fine except for any perl/cgi-script. The permissions on the
scripts are right and it seems that the scripts itself can also be located
(in the ./cgi-bin directory. whatever i try, i always get a 'CGIwrap
error:execution failed' saying:

Error Message: No such file or directory
Error Number: 2
This message usually indicates there is a problem with the script itself.
The owner of the script needs to check the #! line for correctness.

The #! points to /usr/bin/perl, which is the right location.
Somehow Apache on my qube doesn't 'understand' Perl ..... which is strange
since there are several other perl scripts on the system

any suggestions?

External Since: Nov 03, 2003 Posts: 2907

On 2004-09-25, jajocira <jajocira.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
> The #! points to /usr/bin/perl, which is the right location.
> Somehow Apache on my qube doesn't 'understand' Perl

If that is a cgi script, is not run by Apache, apache only run
a shell that runs the script. What if you call your
script from the prompt?
What's in the error_log?

Davide

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