Cgi scripts in apache not working

Thu Jul 28 19:45:33 EDT 2005

David a écrit :
> I've looked all over the place for an answer, and the only one I can
> find doesn't mean anything to me. The end of line issue with writting
> it in Windows and then uploading it doesn't help me since I'm doing
> this all from Linux. I've been trying to get python cgi scripts to
> work, and I always end up with a "Premature end of script headers" in
> the error log.
> 
> The scripts are executable by all

Is it executable by yourself ?

  and my httpd.conf seems fine. I also
> tested it out in /var/www/cgi-bin/ and there it seems to work fine.
> 
> test2.py:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
> print """<html>
> <head></head>
> <body>
> <h1>Hello World</h1>
> </body>
> </html>"""
> 
> httpd.conf:
> 
> <Directory "/home/*/public_html/cgi/"> << Tried it with "" and no ""

shoud be without "" AFAIK (well, it's without on all our servers !-)

>         Options ExecCGI << Tried with "Options +ExecCGI"

>         AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .py << Tried with "SetHandler
> cgi-script", but still no go

<ot>
SetHandler tells apache to treat everything as a cgi , whatever the .xxx
</ot>

I've tried your script (renamed py.cgi, because .py is not in my default 
apache conf and I wanted to try it out of the box), with the following 
conf for userdirs:

<Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin>
      Options +ExecCGI -Includes -Indexes
      SetHandler cgi-script
</Directory>

runs fine.

I've then added a .htaccess in my ~/public_html:
Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

And mv'd py.cgi from ~/public_html/cgi-bin to ~/public_html.

runs fine.

> error_log:
> 
> [Thu Jul 28 11:44:53 2005] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Premature
> end of script headers: test2.py
> 

What are the previous and next lines ? I've found such a line in my 
error_log, due to me forgetting to make the script executable, and there 
was a

[Fri Jul 29 01:14:33 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission 
denied: exec of '/home/bruno/public_html/cgi-bin/py.cgi' failed

before.

Then I tried chmod u-x py.cgi, and got the same error message as you 
did, but this time with no "Permission denied" before.

Aayway, I think your problem is with permissions and/or your apache 
conf, so you may find more useful help on an apache ng.

My 2 cents