Re: [LIP] perl & CGI

Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.india.programmers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Saturday 25 September 2004 08:29 pm, you wrote:
> Hi Ravi,
>
> Ravi <austin_lovingly@...> wrote:
> > tried to execute a CGI script, im getting the error
> > "premature end of script header".what may be the
> > common cause.
>
> What exactly is your CGI script doing?
>
> Anyway, the possible causes could be:
> 1. Check the #!/path/to/perl is correctly specified in your script
> 2. Specify Content-Type properly, like
>    Content-Type: text/html\r\n\r\n
> 3. The CGI file should not be writable by group and others
> 4. If your script is reading/writing to/from some file, it should have
> proper permissions to read/write those file(s).

also it may be trying to find a module that is not available - does the 
script run from the command line?
-- 
regards
kg

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