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request data from a program executed on the web server. CGI specifies a standard for passing request data between a web server and the program used to service that request. CGI scripts are often preferred by dreamhost 500 internal server error web developers because of their speed and their minimal resource requirements. CGI scripts on
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DreamHost can be written in all of the languages commonly used with CGI (Perl, Python, Ruby, even shell scripts), and dreamhost python 3 as long as you have an interpreter for that language to compile. Running a CGI script at DreamHost To run, copy the script to a web-accessible directory (e.g., /home/username/example.com/cgi-bin). You don't have to put dreamhost perl your CGI scripts in a cgi-bin directory, as CGI scripts can run from any directory within your domain on DreamHost. The server understands several file extensions (e.g., .pl), but if you see the source code of your script instead of the result of its execution, try using the generic extension .cgi. If you get a "500 Internal Server Error", you may need to change the permissions of the file:
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[server]$ chmod 755 script.cgi Running a CGI script without a .cgi extension If you wish to install a CGI script without the .cgi extension, simply use a
applications, Python, and Node.js. Passenger is the preferred way to deploy and host Ruby on Rails applications across all DreamHost servers and is free on every DreamHost hosting plan. dreamhost php Basic operation The following are the basic actions that take place once 500 internal server error python cgi a file is requested from a domain running Passenger and Ruby on Rails: When a request is
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made to a domain/subdomain, the Apache HTTP Server passes the request to Passenger. Passenger first looks for an appropriately-named HTML or CGI file in the domain/subdomain's /public subdirectory. If no https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/217297307-CGI-overview matching file is found, the request is passed to Passenger's Rack interface. Note that this use of the /public subdirectory meshes precisely with the way that Ruby on Rails makes use of the same subdirectory. In order to generate a response, Rack looks for a file named "config.ru" in the domain/subdomain's root directory (i.e., the parent of the domain's https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215769578-Passenger-overview /public subdirectory). Rack requires that you place the appropriate Ruby code into "config.ru" to invoke your desired web framework or application to handle the request. Under normal circumstances, Ruby on Rails (RoR) will automatically create and initialize all of the files and directories needed to interface with Passenger/Rack. When running a RoR application, the only Rack-related files you are likely to modify are possibly adding GEM_PATH information to "config.ru" and "touching" the "tmp/restart.txt" file. Use of Passenger vs. FastCGI Passenger should only be enabled if you intend to run a Ruby on Rails (RoR) or other Ruby/Python-based program as the sole application for the entire domain or subdomain. Passenger directs all requests for the designated domain/subdomain to the associated Rack-compliant application. So it's best to leave Passenger disabled if you do not actually need it. In other words, you should only enable Passenger if you want to access your application via the following three URLs: myapp.example.com www.example.com www.myapp.example.com If you want to access your application via www.example.com/path-to-myapp then use FastCGI instead of passenger. A couple
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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 Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Django dreamhost: Getting 500 errors despite application working locally up vote 0 down vote favorite I have a simple application hosted on dreamhost.com that I know for certain that it runs and works. If I run the application like so: 'python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000' you can see that it runs fine. However, when left by itself, dreamhost doesn't seem to be able to run the application, and I'm getting constant Internal Server Errors (500). I tried several solutions that I found around the internet such as creating a domain.com/tmp/restart.txt file, and running the passnger_wsgi.py, as well as making sure to kill the python instance (via pkill python), but so far no luck. Any idea as to what may be causing this issue? Error logs that I could find: [Mon May 19 16:28:20 2014] [error] [client 74.78.211.219] Premature end of script headers: internal_error.html [Mon May 19 16:32:33 2014] [error] [client 74.78.211.219] Premature end of script headers: python django dreamhost share|improve this question edited May 19 '14 at 23:52 asked May 19 '14 at 23:37 Stupid.Fat.Cat 1,66142454 You need to find error logs or this will be nearly impossible. The answer is pretty much to find out the error logs. Anything could be failing. –Yuji 'Tomita' Tomita May 19 '14 at 23:44 No idea without knowing more information, such as the specific error that is being thrown, etc. –ElGavilan May 19 '14 at 23:45 Do you guys know in particular where to find the error logs from dreamhost? I will update the question with the error logs that I can find. –Stupid.Fat.Cat May 19 '14 at 23:52 add a comment| active oldest votes Know someone who can answer? Share a link to this question via email, Google+, Twitter, or Facebook. Your Answer draft saved draft discarded Sign up or log in Sign up using Google