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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, visitor logging, mailing lists, and more. All apps include: • Money-back guarantee • No monthly fees • Free tech support • Easy setup (we can even do it for you!) 500 Internal Server Error ...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 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 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 CGI scripts, your problem may be one of these common causes for the Internal Server Error: Problems outside the script: Directory permissions: you
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Hello World!
\n"; foreach $key (sort keys(%ENV)) { print "$key = $ENV{$key}
" ; } print "\n"; print "\n"; So I think there is some problem with my code. When I run the first perl script in my local machine with the -wc command, it says that the syntax is OK. Help me please. perl cgi share|improve this question edited May 21 '10 at 0:26 brian d foy 87.1k24150391 asked May 20 '10 at 8:19 Nitish 60151127 1 When you have trouble with a Perl CGI script, go through my "Troubleshooting Perl CGI Script": stackoverflow.com/questions/2165022/… –brian d foy May 21 '10 at 0:26 I don't know whether this helps but I got my perl-cgi script working after I put shebang line #!C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl –user966588 Mar 11 '12 at 14:42 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 3 down vote accepted I assume you're running the first script as a CGI script? You need to include the content type
am I getting a 500 Internal Server Error message? Browse by products and services DV and VPS Hosting Grid Shared Hosting WordPress Hosting Legacy DV Hosting Applies to: All Service Types Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 https://mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204644990/why-am-i-getting-a-500-internal-server-error-message Tools Required: Plain text editor, FTP client Overview 500 Internal Server Error is a generic error message, given when no more specific message is suitable. There are a number of causes for a 500 Internal Server Error to display in a web browser. Below is a sample error message. This article provides information on the most common causes. Check the Error Logs! With any error internal server message, particularly one as broad as the 500 Internal Server Error, you will first want to check any Apache and PHP error logs for your server. These logs can provide valuable context related to any code failures or other potential causes of a site failure. For information on where to find the logs for your server, please see: Where are the access_log and error_log for my internal server error server? Error with an .htaccess file If you are using a .htaccess on your site, it may be interfering with the web page you are trying to load into your browser. Please double check the .htaccess configuration. Any syntax errors will cause a 500 Internal Server Error message to be displayed instead of your website. To confirm whether a misconfiguration .htaccess is the cause of the 500 Internal Server error, either remove or rename the .htaccess file temporarily and then try to reload the page. See also: Using .htaccess rewrite rules Using .htaccess files PHP Coding Timing Out If your PHP script makes external network connections, the connections may time out. If too many connections are attempted and time out, this will cause a "500 Internal Server Error." To prevent these time outs and errors, you'll want to make sure that PHP scripts be coded with some timeout rules. Typically, however, catching a timeout error when connecting to a database or externally to remote resources (example: RSS feeds) are difficult. They, in effect, freeze the script from continuing to run. Removing any external connections can increase both the performance of your website and decrease the