Forum Moderators: phranque
"Cobalt servers often have strangely-configured versions of perl installed that give off warnings, and cause the webserver to give an internal server error. Usually, MT is able to trap any warnings, but on Cobalt servers, it seems that these methods do not work, and warnings escape... this then causes internal server errors from the webserver. I would suggest taking a look at your server error logs, because if the above is what is happening, I would guess that the warnings would be in the logs."
A temporary solution was found by adding an .htaccess file with this in it:
Options Includes ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddHandler cgi-script .pl
However, that caused a problem with the addition of new entries into the archive, etc. Translation: you can't add new entries into the blog, etc.
As this has taken (and is still taking) weeks to resolve, I thought I'd ask any here at WebmasterWorld if they have experience with this- and any suggestions. The MovableType Support Forum hasn't been that helpful (that is, I've seen the problem there- but no solution which is probably a bad sign).
Ideally, I'd like to have both the search script work AND be able to add new entries, etc.
Thanks for your thoughts!
