I am trying to get Perl cgi running on my FC2 Apache.
From my error_log
[Sun Nov 07 15:43:00 2004] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] (2)No such file or directory: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/test.cgi' failed
I'm guessing that the first line of your script is actually blank and that the #! line is line 2? This line needs to be the very first line in your script.
You should also verify that perl is installed in /usr/bin, and that there aren't any funny non-printing characters at the end of your first line (it's always safest to use:
#!/usr/bin/perl --
as the first line).
[Sun Nov 07 15:43:00 2004] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] Premature end of script headers: test.cgi
this is the test.cgi script
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; use warnings; print "What is your username? "; my $username; $username = <STDIN>; chomp($username); print "Hello, $username.\n";
This isn't a CGI script. You can't just take a command line script and put it onto a webserver. You need to do some reading about how CGI works. You should also have a look at the CGI module for Perl which will make your life a lot easier.
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/overview.html
http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.05/CGI.pm
HTH
Simon.
