On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 09:53:24PM -0500, Dave Sherman wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > Got a small problem. I have APache running on a test server at home, > with perl and mysql. So far, so good. > > Now, I want to add perl/cgi capability, so I can run a couple of perl > scripts that I wrote a long time ago. Anyhoo, the scripts run ok from > the command line, except for the fact that they don't have an http > request string to use in the environment variable -- the point is, the > perl interpreter says everything is ok with the scripts. > > However, Apache will simply not run my scripts from my user directory! I > even created a really simple script, to see if Apache was barfing on > something within the script in spite of perl itself saying it was ok. > Apache won't even run a simple perl script. The error is the infamous, > "Premature end of script headers". > > Scripts seem to run fine in /home/httpd/cgi-bin/, but not in my home > directory (/home/user/www/cgi-bin/, where 'www' is set up as the > UserDir). > > As far as I can tell, I have things configured to allow user cgi's in > /home/user/www/cgi-bin/. > > Why won't Apache run scripts from my home web directory??? 'Cause it's probably not set up to do so. Either you have to do something like: ScriptAliasMatch ^/~(user)/cgi-bin /home/$1/www/cgi-bin Or you have to enable it for the specific dir with: <Directory /home/user/www/cgi-bin> Options +ExecCGI </Directory> (First solution not tested and from the top of my memory) -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>