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mphayesuk · #1 7th February 2006, 13:02

I am trying to run a cgi script and get a 500 internal server error, the script is a very simple contact us form that I got off the internet and amended a couple of variable so that the email comes to me, can someone take a look and see if I have done anything simple wrong.

www.touch-one.co.uk/contactus.html

www.touch-one.co.uk/cgi-bin/novice.cgi

I have set the cgi script to be 777 to see if that made any difference but no joy.

Help someone.

mphayesuk · #2 7th February 2006, 13:08

Just tried the test files by falco and the .pl file does not work either... where do I start to find out what the problem is.

Thanks

badben · #3 7th February 2006, 15:42

Is the cgi file in the cgi-bin?

Only files in the cgi-bin will run as a cgi file.

mphayesuk · #4 7th February 2006, 15:56

They will work if I turn off suexec.... which I dont want to do.... So now its a question of what did I do wrong/how do I fix apache so that suexec will work with /home/www instead of the default location.

falko · #5 7th February 2006, 18:58

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Originally Posted by mphayesuk

They will work if I turn off suexec.... which I dont want to do.... So now its a question of what did I do wrong/how do I fix apache so that suexec will work with /home/www instead of the default location.

If your CGI scripts are outside suExec's document root, then you must recompile suExec - there's no other solution...