Dazed, Confused, Angry

[grandpa]

I had to move our site to another hosting company, and the CGI scripts are driving me nuts. I got one working after several hours, but the other one is ***** me off.

Basically, the only thing that I can see that needs to be changed is the path to the cgi. My new path would be "http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/"

I'm getting this error in my logs:
[Thu Nov 13 17:04:59 2003] [error] [client 67.22.65.8] malformed header from script. Bad header=: /home/mysite/public_html/cgi-bin/subscribe.cgi

What is a malformed header? Also, I downloaded the latest script (we use shareware - registered) and it arrived as a *.pl file, instead of a *.cgi file. Should it be renamed to cgi? Will it run as pl.

I am totally clueless about this aspect of the site, but I need it up and running today. Any thoughts?

Thank You

[ogletree]

The .pl may not be associated as an executable. The server may need to be set up to execute .pl files. I had to do this one time. I moved from a UNIX based server to a Windows based server.

[grandpa]

The server has handlers defines for cgi-script(.cgi) and cgi-script(.pl).

It acts like a bad path, but the malformed header message is throwing me, since I have no idea what that means.

Here's some relevant info for the path:

$memberinfo = "http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin";
$passfile = "http:/www.mysite.com/cgi-bin";
$closing = "http:/www.mysite.com/cgi-bin";

[grandpa]

Oh, and I'm ftp'ing the file up in ascii mode, and then chmod to 755 for the cgi and 777 for the data files.

[coopster]

Hey grandpa, I remember this error. It's a fun one. If it isn't your content-type declaration...

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

...then you may want to check your application from the command line before you try to execute it from the Web.

[grandpa]

That line is my script is exactly as you printed it. The problem is a path issue, I just resolved it.

I had to use "/home/myweb/public_html/cgi-bin" instead of "http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/". It must be server thing....

Grrr, and I'm not really smarter for the effort. Thank guys for jumping in.

[marcs]

"/home/myweb/public_html/cgi-bin" would be the path to your cgi-bin (in the directory tree) on that server.

"http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/" is the URL to your cgi-bin.

Two very different things. Hope that clears things up for you.

[ogletree]

Well aparently that worked on his old server. I guess on the old server you could get there that way as well.

[sanuk]

Hi,

Try CHMOD your perl script to 750 instead of 755

Regards,
Sanuk