What means: "Premature end of script headers"

[mizrobin]

We migrated to an new server running Apache, and suddenly our scripts are useless.&nbsp;&nbsp;I'm useless too at trying to figure this out since I inherited this project and have never written a Perl script in my life.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The error message says something about internal error or configuration problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;The helpful techies over at the new host must all be on vacation because they don't respond (surprise!).<br><br>Ideas???&nbsp;&nbsp;What do I need to tweak to get this sucker running?<br>

 

[Loon]

Can you post some of a script causing this problem, the only time I got this error on our Apache server was when I hadn't got my <br><FONT FACE=monospace>print &quot;content-type:text/html\n\n&quot;</font><br>string incorrect.<br><br>Cheers<br>Loon

 

[goBoating]

Since Perl buffers its 'print' output, the error could be nearly anywhere in your CGI.&nbsp;&nbsp;The error you're getting simply means the browser did not get enough HTML to make any sense of it.&nbsp;&nbsp;Check your syntax and enable a little error checking, if the syntax is OK.&nbsp;&nbsp;I use a simple sub to report CGI errors like failures to open files and such....like..<br><br><FONT FACE=monospace><br># print HTML content-type, open, head, title, body, paragraph..... then<br>open(IPF,&quot;&lt;someInPutFile&quot or &showError(&quot;Failed to open IPF, $!&quot;<br># do stuff with the input .....<br>close IPF;<br><br>sub showError<br>{<br>my $error = $_[0];<br>print &quot;ERROR - $error&lt;BR&gt;\n&quot;;<br>print &quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&quot;;<br>exit;<br>}<br></font><br><br><br>If you fail to open the ipput file, you will still get compliant html to the browser.<br><br>'hope this helps.... <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br> keep the rudder amid ship and beware the odd typo

 

[ttest]

hi, mizrobin<br><br>i also got this error message when my perl script contains syntax errors. try to compile your perl script with the command:<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;perl -c yourscript.cgi<br><br> <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>ttest<br>
happy programming

 

[craigrichards]

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Craig Richards