Editor creating problems

[s3r]

I've never run into this problem before.

I have a perl script running on my development server. When I post the script to the live server it fails with error 500. (Note, my changes were minor in nature ... only dealing with the text that was displayed)

I then reverted to the original script that I had saved a copy of and the server error persists.

There were no other changes.

Any idea what could cause this problem?

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

Question 1: Have you tested the perl scripts with "-c" to syntax check them?
Question 2: Have you checked the log files to get more info on what's failing? "error 500" doesn't help much.


Trojan.

 

[PaulTEG]

Are you moving your files to a *nix box, are you saving your files in Unix format (google dos2unix if it's not a feature available in your editor)?

Unix uses \n, whereas windows uses \r\n, and this causes problems on windows boxes

HTH
--Paul




cigless ...

 

[fishiface]

Error 500 suggest's it's a CGI script. What browser are you using? IE caches failures long after you've corrected the problem - a nightmare for developing. Try telnetting to port 80 directly and see what you get.

yours,

f

"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."
--Maurice Wilkes