On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 22:17, Jay Kline wrote:
> If you are getting the "Premature end of script headers" you are set up to be 
> executing the script.  There is another problem.  When you execute the script 
> on the command line, is the first pice of output:
> 
> Content-type: text/html
> 
> 
> 
> (with 2 blank lines following)?

Yes, this is what I get.

> If its not, that is what apache is complaining about.  Apache leaves the 
> headers up to the scripts, so you need (at the very least) to send the 
> content type.  A simple script to make sure everything is working would be 
> this:
> 
> #!/bin/perl -w
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print "Hello World";
> 
> 
> If that dosnt work, then there are other errors, and let us know.

The above is the exact "simple" test script I am using. It works fine in
/home/httpd/cgi-bin/, but not in /home/user/www/cgi-bin/.

See for yourself at http://sildara.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/test.cgi
My user directory is http://sildara.dyndns.org/~dave/cgi-bin/test.cgi

Dave
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