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ManagerEponymRun yoursite.com from your PCMore...View all of our apps Your Cart Contact Us MenuCartContact FileChucker UserBase CornerStore VisitorLog ContactForm MailyList Eponym More... Web Apps Since 2004. Is your website boring? Kick it up a notch. Encodable apps give you easy drop-in functionality like file uploads, user accounts, paid subscriptions, protected pages, live chat, internal server error cgi-bin apache visitor logging, mailing lists, and more. All apps include: • Money-back guarantee • No internal server error cgi python monthly fees • Free tech support • Easy setup (we can even do it for you!) 500 Internal Server Error cgi internal server error 500 ...and how to fix it. The short answer: this is usually a permissions error on your CGI script, which is easy to fix. Go to your FTP client, or your website file manager, and highlight or
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right-click on the CGI script. Then choose Properties, or Permissions, or "Chmod", and set it to world-executable: that's 0755, or a+rx, or -rwxr-xr-x. Do NOT use 0777 (a+rwx or -rwxrwxrwx). And your cgi-bin directory itself should also be 0755, not 0777. The long answer: when running a Perl CGI script like FileChucker or UserBase, you may see the "Internal Server Error" message in your browser. The message will usually also say enable cgi apache2 ubuntu something like "please check the server's error-log for more information." You should do that -- the message printed to the error log will often tell you exactly what the problem is. The Apache error log, for example, is often located at /var/log/apache/error_log or /var/log/apache2/error_log (or sometimes "error.log"). If you don't have access to the error log, the next simplest thing to do is to make a backup copy of the script, then open the original and delete all of its contents, and add just these 3 lines to the file: #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"; print "testing...\n"; (Note: if the server is a Windows system, then replace the first line above with either #!perl or #!c:\path\to\perl.exe.) Now try to access the page in your browser again. If it works (you see "testing..." as its output) then you know that your server is at least configured properly for running Perl CGI scripts. If it doesn't work, then that may mean the problem is in the server configuration, rather than with your CGI script. (For example, are you sure you actually have Perl installed? Virtually all UNIX/Linux/OS X servers do, but Windows servers usually need to have it installed manually, from a free package like ActivePerl.) Assuming your server is configured properly for running
of questions I get from my visitors at thesitewizard.com, I can see that one of the most dreaded errors that newcomers to CGI face is the "500 Internal Server Error". It is one of the most uninformative cgi-bin folder error messages that can mean anything from an improper upload to a bug in the
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script. This article attempts to give you some concrete, practical steps that you can take to narrow down the problem and hopefully
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eliminate it. For the uninitiated, a "500 Internal Server Error" is a message much like the common "404 File Not Found" message. You get the latter message in your browser when you try to access a https://encodable.com/internal_server_error/ non-existent web page. You get the "500 Internal Server Error" message when you try to run a script with problems. For the purposes of this article, I am assuming that your CGI script is a Perl script, by far the most commonly available on the Internet. We will try to eliminate the most common errors first (and the easiest-to-eliminate ones): Location Did you upload your scripts into the right place? This is http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/servererror.shtml not as obvious as it may seem. Some servers are configured to run your CGI scripts anywhere. Others will only run it when it is installed in a particular directory. It is not just a matter of creating a "cgi-bin" directory — for example, some hosts configure the server so that it will run scripts only from a particular directory outside the web directory structure (for security reasons). Your web page will still call the script "/cgi-bin/script.pl" but the server maps it to the actual directory. You will have to upload it in the right directory, regardless of what your web page calls it. Find out such information from your web host's documentation. File Upload Mode Did you upload your Perl script in ASCII mode? Your FTP client may have uploaded the script in binary mode if you did not take any special action. Perl scripts are ASCII files, and since different operating systems have different ways of representing the end of line character (eg Unix uses a line-feed, Windows uses a carriage-return and line-feed pair), it is important that you set the uploading method to ASCII, so that line-end translation is performed. Re-upload the script, this time making sure that it was uploaded in Text or ASCII mode. Do not use any auto-detection options sin
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" echo "Hi" echo "" echo "" But after executing the script I can see the 500:Internal Server Error in browser page. . Following can be seen in error log file [Wed Apr 09 18:36:59 2014] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] malformed header from script. Bad header=: image.sh [Wed Apr 09 18:37:14 2014] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] malformed header from script. Bad header=: image.sh bash html cgi apache-httpd share|improve this question asked Apr 9 '14 at 7:51 Zama Ques 61821429 Are you sure your script is executed ? could you show use some config of your webserver ? –Kiwy Apr 9 '14 at 8:12 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 8 down vote accepted As the HTTP spec (and the error message from your HTTP server) specify, you need one blank line between the HTTP headers and the body, otherwise the server doesn't know where the headers end and the body begins. From RFC 2616 (emphasis my othe new Plesk version coming out later this year. Visit this thread for more details. 500 Internal Server Error when trying to run a cgi script Discussion in 'Plesk for Linux - 8.x and Older' started by MaRiOs, Jul 23, 2005. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next > MaRiOs Guest 0 Hello ppl, I need some more automatic things to put in plesk so I said I must begin learning perl to write my own scripts. I made a very easy one that just prints 2 words and i uploades to the cgi-bin area... (its the first time Im using the cgi-bin). so when i try to run the script i get : 500 Internal Server Error .... the link is : http://www.mariosmaravelias.info/cgi-bin/test.cgi what am I doing wrong? MaRiOs, Jul 23, 2005 #1 jamesyeeoc Guest 0 Could you post this script? Have you checked your log files? /var/log/messages /home/httpd/vhosts/mariosmaravelias.info/statistics/logs/access_log /home/httpd/vhosts/mariosmaravelias.info/statistics/logs/error_log jamesyeeoc, Jul 23, 2005 #2 MaRiOs Guest 0 #!/usr/bin/perl $name="Hello World"; print $name; i cantbe more simple than that MaRiOs, Jul 23, 2005 #3 jamesyeeoc Guest 0 And what about your log files, any errors or messages relating to this problem?? You should be seeing 'Premature end of script headers: test.cgi' in your error_log file Common solutions to this are: 1) Copy psa-suexec to suexec: cp /usr/sbin/psa-suexec /usr/sbin/suexecClick to expand... 2) Permissions: chmod -R 755 /home/httpd/vhosts/yourdomain.com/cgi-binClick to expand... 3) Ownership: chown -R ftpusername : psacln /home/httpd/vhosts/yourdomain.com/cgi-binClick to expand... (without the spaces around the colon : ) 4) File is ASCII: If you uploaded the file using FTP, it may have been uploaded in binary mode instead of ASCII, reupload it as ASCII. Then restart apache: service httpd restartClick to expand... In some cases, a whole server restart is necessary, not just apache restart. These have solved the same problem for countless others here on the forum. jamesyeeoc, Jul 23, 2005 #4 MaRiOs Guest 0 Ok I did these : 1)cp: `/usr/sbin/psa-suexec' and `/usr/sbin/suexec' are the same file 2)Done 3)Done 4) i didnt upload it , I loged in ssh and i made the file with nano editor. 5) ok i will try to restart it. about the error log files i dont see anythin about the script.. the only error i see is : [Mon Jul 25 12:29:05 2