I have read a similar post topic but the resolution seems somewhat different than what I need to do to correct the problem.

I am on a windows98 machine working with Notepad to edit my scripts. I have even copied the text directly into the editor on the server from Notepad but I keep getting...

Premature end of script headers: /hsphere/local/home/melissa/latinmusicartists.com/cgi-bin/classad.pl

whether I use .pl or .cgi extension and set permissions to 755. The server is enabled for both extension types. Yes I re-edited the script to point to .pl or .cgi respectively.

All files resides in the root of cgi-bin.

I even tried removing the 5 from the perl path which means I tried both ways.

My ftp utility is ws_ftp95LE

I placed the scripts here for viewing so if anyone can help it will be more than appreciated.

Thanks
Dave

www.latinmusicartists.com/classad.txt

www.latinmusicartists.com/db-lib.txt

Also the url to the script is

www.latinmusicartists.com/cgi-bin/classad.pl

The first thing I notice is that these should be forward slashes...

If you have telnet access to your host, go to the directory where the script is and type

perl -c scriptname.cgi

That should give you a list of errors.

1. You need to comment out comment lines like

- Absolute path to the CGI directory/db-lib file

i.e. add a # at the beginning of the line

2. paths should contain forward slashes, e.g /hsphere/local/....

I haven't look further than 'Do not edit below this line', assuming the script was fine from there.

Ivan
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Ok I made those corrections but still the same error.

I have not setup telnet. I only viewed server's error log.

Thanks
Dave

Create a simple test script to see if that works. A "Hello World" type script will do.

Not a problem. My other scripts run fine there.

Dave

Hello davetech

When I started writing perl scripts on windows and ftp'ing them to linux

I found many 500 errors , but the script worked in windows.

I then bought Edit Plus editor which allows me to save in unix/windows format a file.

Unix / Linux use different carriage returns / line feeds characters than Windows does.

Is this your error ?

cornball

Yes I've heard of Edit Plus. Not quite the problem though.

Thanks
Dave

Hello dave tech

why do you not add :

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

to the top of your script so you can get an error messge back in the browser

for www.latinmusicartists.com/cgi-bin/classad.pl

instead of the generic error 500 message.

Remember to comment out this after it works as it may give messages to hackers.

Thanks

Cornball

Sorry I do not have the system and bits to fully try out your code.

Just got lazy that's all.

Will do on next test.

Thanks
Dave

How do you know it's not the problem?


Perhaps we should all get lazy then and relax whilst you do some more debugging