Perl Cgi Exec Format Error
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as to why this is happening thanks®ards lax 2006-07-04 Retitled by Corion, as per Monastery guidelines Original title: 'CGI'Comment on exec format error with CGI program Replies are exec format error exec of cgi listed 'Best First'. Re: exec format error with CGI program by davorg (Chancellor) 8 exec format error exec of failed on Jul 04, 2006 at 08:36UTC i wrote a html file in /var/www/cgi-bin.... You probably don't want to do that apache exec format error php :-) Your web server is probably configured to execute any files served from your cgi-bin directory. That makes sense as that's what the cgi-bin directory is for. Therefore, any time your web server
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gets a request for a file in your cgi-bin directory, it tries to execute that file and return the output to the user. An HTML file is not an executable program. Therefore the web server can't execute it and your operating system generates the error that you see. The solution is to put cgi programs in the cgi-bin directory and static HTML files in the htdocs directory malformed header from script (or whatever the equivalent is in your configuration). --
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posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Unable to get this simple Perl CGI program running http://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=559114 up vote 0 down vote favorite 1 Can someone please explain to me the very basics of getting perl to work on a server. Do I need a module on the server? If so where does it go? What do I name my files and where do they go? From my understanding you need a module and it goes in the cgi-bin. I can't get a clear answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12666361/unable-to-get-this-simple-perl-cgi-program-running whether I name the file .pl or .cgi and when I put it in the cgi-bin I am getting a server error. I also have my permissions set to 777, so that shouldn't be the problem. Please help! I just want to understand the how to get the very basic program working such as the one below. Thanks in advance! #!/usr/bin/perl require("cgi-lib.pl"); print &PrintHeader; print ""; print "
Hello world!
"; print ""; print ""; perl cgi cgi-bin share|improve this question edited Oct 1 '12 at 1:43 Andy Lester 51k1166121 asked Oct 1 '12 at 0:40 SilverNightaFall 1,30962342 Did you put cgi-lib.pl in the same directory and with the same permissions? What error do you get? What is written in the server logs? –epsalon Oct 1 '12 at 0:45 I am getting (8)Exec format error: exec of 'home/site/cgi-bin/simple.pl' failed and Premature end of script headers: simple.pl –SilverNightaFall Oct 1 '12 at 0:50 and yes I have cgi-lib.pl in the cgi-bin folder –SilverNightaFall Oct 1 '12 at 0:52 5 cgi-lib.pl is from back in the perl 4 days, almost 20 years ago. Can I ask what instructions you are following that mentionedhere for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20157826/500-internal-servor-error-when-trying-to-run-a-perl-cgi-file-on-apache-2-4-6-ubu hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges http://serverfault.com/questions/107952/premature-end-of-script-and-exec-format-error Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up 500 Internal Servor Error when trying to run a perl cgi file on Apache 2.4.6 Ubuntu 13.10 up vote 0 down vote favorite Hi since other posts about this topic exec format didn't do me much justice ( none of them seem to apply for Ubuntu 13.10, the version of Ubuntu I run), I decided to make another one. After running these lines ( a fellow stackoverflow member suggested running these).. cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled sudo ln -s ../mods-available/cgi.load . sudo ln -s ../mods-available/cgid.load . sudo service apache2 restart I placed the cgi files ( they are perl ones ) into my Apache2's cgi-bin @ /usr/lib/cgi-bin. When typing localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi, I got a exec format error 500 Internal server error. This is what the Server error log says.. [Fri Nov 22 21:23:29.045785 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 9559] [client 127.0.0.1:47663] AH01215: (8)Exec format error: exec of '/usr/lib/cgi-bin/test.cgi' failed [Fri Nov 22 21:23:29.046720 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 9559] [client 127.0.0.1:47663] End of script output before headers: test.cgi test.cgi looks like this... #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print <
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HTML exit; Does anyone know what to do when then happens or have any suggestions? Thanks EDIT:: Oddly enough, I got this cgi file i call test2.cgi to run. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; sub main { print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "Hello world\n\n"; print "What's your favorite food brah?\n"; } main(); But the larger, more advanced cgi files that I need to work on wont run. These ones include stuff being printed out in html tags. EDIT: Ignore any weird spacing in code. Its just how i copied it into the post. perl apache ubuntu cgi share|improve this question edited Nov 24 '13 at 1:26 asked Nov 23 '13 at 2:34 John 1028 not sure, I got 500 error with both the perl scripts. The apache error I am getting is, File does not exist: /home/leo/public_html/cgi-bin/sys_cpanel, referer: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~leo/cgi-bin/test1.cgi :( –Leo Prince Nov 23 '13 at 8:04 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up voteStart here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Server Fault Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Server Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top premature end of script and exec format error up vote 2 down vote favorite 2 [Fri Jan 29 20:23:28 2010] [error] [client 23.23.23.23] Premature end of script headers: header.php [Sat Jan 30 10:22:42 2010] [error] [client 23.23.23.23] (8)Exec format error: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/header.php' failed how to fix this ? basically a .cgi script loads header.php which contains javascripts and some php stuff..... i notice .cgi script runs fine but none of the javascripts and php things work. apache-2.2 ubuntu share|improve this question asked Jan 30 '10 at 22:23 vvvvvvv 3 You've given us so little to go on that most of us will be making a complete shot in the dark answering this. Anything else you feel like you can tell us? Are you wanted someone to explain the error message or fix some script. You may want to try stackoverflow. –Patrick R Jan 30 '10 at 23:08 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 3 down vote The best anybody can do without more information, since you've given almost none, is guess. Here's mine: You've either got a missing semicolon or parenthesis or curly brace somewhere (or some other delimiter or bracketing character) or there are DOS line endings (\r\n) where there should be Unix ones (\n). share|improve this answer answered Jan 31 '10 at 0:19 Dennis Williamson 41.2k966106 add a comment| up vote 3 down vote Long shot, but try adding AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php to your apache configuration file. share|improve this answer answered Jan 31 '10 at 8:40 rytis 1,7321013 add a comment| up vote 2 down vote Try to see if your web server has something like this i.e in Apache: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/