Newbie CGI Q

[Erik Max Francis]

Ian Pellew wrote:

> I have the preverbial works from command line but NOT via apache/http.
> 
> The basics work OK on command line and via httpd (Solaris 8)
> The moment I "import cgi" I get the "Internal Server Error"
> The cgi with import cgi is OK on the command line.

If you're just seeing the 500 error, how do you know that's where the
error happens?  Almost certainly the problem is that CGI is exercising
something in your program that you don't hit from the command line. 
Look in your httpd error logs to see the stderr output that your script
spat out.

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