Topic: Unable to get CGI scripts to run

[TerryF]

What was the url that you put in the Dansie contact form?
 
It should have been in this form <FORM ACTION="http://ddj.homelinux.com/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl" METHOD=POST>

I setup up the contact form as per the Dansie website and it worked as it should.

[del]

You have to read httpd/error_log to determine what the problem is. Just saying "it doesn't work" isn't sufficient for anyone to help you solve the problem.

Logs are posted further up in reply #4, but this is all it says -

Access log

"POST /cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl HTTP/1.1" 500 543 "http://ddj.homelinux.com/contact.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0"

Error log

[Sat Jun 22 19:32:58 2013] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] (2)No such file or directory: exec of '/home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl' failed, referer: http://ddj.homelinux.com/contact.html
[Sat Jun 22 19:32:58 2013] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] Premature end of script headers: mail_ht.pl, referer: http://ddj.homelinux.com/contact.html

Nothing in the message log.

Form/script works fine on a shared hosting account I have, just can't seem to get it to work on my server.

[janet]

del

No such file or directory: exec of '/home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl' failed, referer: http://ddj.homelinux.com/contact.html

Please run these commands & show the actual output of
cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/
ls -al

and

cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/
ls -al

[CharlieBrady]

No such file or directory: exec of '/home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl' failed, referer: http://ddj.homelinux.com/contact.html

Show output of:

ls -l /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl
file /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl

What happens if you type just:

/home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl

?

[del]

Hi Janet,
When I run
cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/
ls -al
I get this

total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 root  root   4096 Jun 21 20:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root  root   4096 Jun 20 22:01 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root   4096 Jun 23 09:29 cgi-bin
drwxr-s--- 2 admin shared 4096 Aug  1  2012 files
drwxr-s--- 3 admin shared 4096 Jun 23 16:07 html

and when I run
cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/
ls -al
I get this

total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 23 09:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root  4096 Jun 21 20:43 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13937 Jun 21 20:44 mail_ht.pl

Hi Charlie,
When I run

ls -l /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht
.pl

I get

Code: [Select]

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13937 Jun 21 20:44 /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-
bin/mail_ht.plWhen I run

file /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl

I get

Code: [Select]

/home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl: perl script text executableand finally if I run

/home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl

I get

Code: [Select]

-bash: /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl: /usr/bin/perl^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
Thank you both for taking the time to look and help.

Kind regards,
Del

[_alex]

Hi,

Your problem is that the perl script has windows style lines endings (carriage return + line feed)

You can fix it by running:

Code: [Select]

dos2unix -o /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl

[CharlieBrady]

-bash: /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl: /usr/bin/perl^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

dos2unix /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl

[del]

Hi,

Your problem is that the perl script has windows style lines endings (carriage return + line feed)

You can fix it by running:

Code: [Select]

dos2unix -o /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl

dos2unix /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin/mail_ht.pl

Thank you both, that fixed it! Thank you to everyone who offered their help and time.
One question, what should I use to edit these files on a Windows PC? Is there anyway I can prevent this from happening next time? Thanks again.

Kind regards,
Del

[Stefano]

One question, what should I use to edit these files on a Windows PC? Is there anyway I can prevent this from happening next time?

yes, don't use windows to edit such a file..
nano/pico/vi/whatever and you are done

[TerryF]

I use perledit http://www.indigostar.com/perledit.php free for pers use