UGH.. cgi-bin broken?

500 errors for everything

[Acternaweb]

Ok, excuse the dumb question, but could I have done something to the cgi-bin directory that would break it? I have tried several scrips and allways get a 500 error. I have tried other people's scripts as well as demo scripts from a book to no avail

[choster]

Are the permissions on the directory set properly? Assuming you are on a Unix system, try setting cgi-bin to 755.

If the permissions are set correctly, your FTP client might have uploaded in the wrong mode (i.e. binary instead of text). Try uploading a test script in text and executing it.

[Acternaweb]

I tried both and still no sucess

[choster]

Could be an issue with the host--

- is your path to Perl (first line of the script) correct?
- are they using a CGI wrapper that might have been, for instance, misconfigured after an upgrade?

[Storyteller]

Acternaweb, Apache error log is the first place to look for causes of 500 errors. Find relevant messages and post them here.