Configuring cgi-bin

[Allblack]

Hi there,

I am having a bit of a play with Apache and I want to setup my cgi-bin directory to run scripts

The server is working fine but I cannot execute scripts. I receive the following error in my log file

malformed header from script Bad Header = Hello World :hello.pl

I guess the script might be wrong but when I execute the script with
perl hello.pl it works fine.

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Hello World\n";

I tried it with html included but it did not make a difference.
Do I need to set the owner/group to the Apache user?

Here is some of my config options:

Default Directory

<directory>
Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
Allow Override None
</directory>

My scriptalias

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/"

The script alias directory

<directory "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from All
</directory>

My directory and scripts are set to 777 for testing.

[genlee]

It is because you are not sending an http header from the script. I suggest using the CGI perl module which will make it very simple to write cgi scripts. You can get the module at www.cpan.org or using perl -MCPAN -e shell.

[Allblack]

Thanks for the reply.
I added

print "Content-type : text/html\r\n\r\n";

and it worked fine. I'll definitely will look at the modules

Cheers