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Here's some advice from Chris Maxwell up in tech services:
Message-ID: <20010611193013.42018@cs.dal.ca>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:30:13 -0300
Sender: Chris Maxwell <maxwell@cs.dal.ca>
From: Chris Maxwell <maxwell@cs.dal.ca>
To: "J. Blustein" <jamie@cs.dal.ca>
Subject: Preliminary CGI Problems
So, here are the problems I have seen so far:
Why does my CGI program not run?
1) Are you pointing at the right place? It should be relative
"cgi-bin/myscript.cgi", or fully absolute "~username/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi"
Do not point at "/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi" unless it truly is in
/opt/apache/cgi-bin
2) Is my code broken? Check that the interpreter at the top exists.
Also check /var/log/apache/error_log
3) Is suexec unhappy? Check /var/log/apache/suexec
Maybe your script is world writable, owned by some else, you
have the wrong GID or UID, etc.
Borg is the Education server, if it is not working on www (locutus),
maybe the appropriate thing is not compiled in, different values were
used during compilation, etc. If it is not working on WWW.cs.dal.ca,
then try Borg, if it still doesn't work, then see if the Help Desk can find
something else wrong.
(On Locutus log files are:
/opt/web/apache/logs/error_log and
/var/adm/suexec
)
--
Chris Maxwell
Unix SysAdmin, Faculty of Computer Science,
I also recommend Tom Christiansen's list of common CGI mistakes made by Perl programmers.