Centos 4.2 CGI error

[redhatlover]

Hi,
I installed centos-4.2 in my system.
The problem is cgi script gives error message. The same cgi script is running with Centos-3.4 no problem at all.
Why? please help me

[till]

What is the exact error message you get?

[redhatlover]

Hi till,
this is my error message

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, root@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


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Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS) Server at * * * * * * Port 80


BUT WHEN I RUN HELLO WORLD, It works fine no error message

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello, world!\n";

[falko]

Did you make the script executable? Is there anything in the Apache error log?

[redhatlover]

Originally Posted by falko

Did you make the script executable? Is there anything in the Apache error log?

Hi falko,
yes chmod 755 mail.cgi I did

Apache error log

no such file or directory exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/'

[falko]

Does /var/www/cgi-bin exist, and did you put your file in there?

[redhatlover]

Originally Posted by falko

Does /var/www/cgi-bin exist, and did you put your file in there?

yes. my cgi scripts are there.

BUT WHEN I RUN HELLO WORLD, It works fine no error message

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello, world!\n";
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example list-modules.pl is not running. this script also give a error message.

[falko]

Can you post the output of

ls -la /var/www

?

[redhatlover]

Originally Posted by falko

Can you post the output of

ls -la /var/www

?

Hi Fllko

total 72
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Dec 30 08:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Dec 30 08:13 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 30 08:44 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 30 07:56 error
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 30 08:43 html
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 30 08:13 icons
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Dec 30 07:56 manual
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 30 08:14 mrtg
drwxr-xr-x 2 webalizer root 4096 Dec 30 07:56 usage

[falko]

Maybe it's a problem with suExec? Can you run

chown -R <Apache_user>:<Apache_group> /var/www/cgi-bin

?