Re: CGI ap on NetworkSolutions host

Jay,

That was the problem.  The file was not set to be executable.  Plus I 
removed the public readable and all writables.

Vance

Jay Savage wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Vance E. Neff <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> has anyone had experience getting a CGI application to work on a
>> NetworkSolutions unix host?
>>
>> I have a CGI program under cgi-bin called Login.CGI and a html page under
>> htdocs.
>> When the html page attempts to post a form to ../cgi-bin/Login.CGI, I get a
>> non-description error:
>> 500 internal server error
>>
> 
> Permissions problems are often the source of 500 errors. Check to make
> sure that the file is executable by the user/group that cgi scripts
> run as. In most cases, it isn't you. Also make sure that the
> permissions comply with whatever the site's security policy is. Many
> servers won't execute scripts that are world-readable, for instance.
> 
> HTH,
> 
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