[ILUG] Apach and perl installation

Wed May 31 17:27:54 IST 2006

Hi,
       I have a problem getting perl to work with apache. I have googled 
and can get no solution.

   Php works fine having created "phpinfo.php" and   chmod 755 
/var/www/html/phpinfo.php.
   Then http://localhost/phpinfo.php  gives me the Php Version 5.1.4 
page. OK

   I have created printenv.pl :

#!/usr/bin/perl
##
##  printenv -- demo CGI program which just prints its environment
##

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
foreach $var (sort(keys(%ENV))) {
   $val = $ENV{$var};
   $val =~ s|\n|\\n|g;
   $val =~ s|"|\\"|g;
   print "${var}=\"${val}\"\n";
}

Then chmod 755 /var/www/html/printenv.pl

http://localhost/printenv.pl gives me:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>500 Internal Server Error</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Internal Server Error</h1>
<p>The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.</p>
<p>Please contact the server administrator,
david at epoc.ie and inform them of the time the error occurred,
and anything you might have done that may have
caused the error.</p>
<p>More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.</p>
<p>Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the 
request.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.0 (Fedora) Server at www.epoc.ie Port 80</address>
</body></html>

running   perl /var/www/html/printenv.pl  as user outputs all the env 
variables in plain text

Examining the apache logs gives:

(13) Permission denied: exec of '/var/www/html/printenv.pl'
       Premature end of script headers: printenv.pl

But I think I have the permissions set correctly : chmod 755 
/var/www/html/printenv.pl

AddHandler in apache config is: Addhandler cgi-script .cgi .pl 
and the "options" line is : Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks 
SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews

What have I done wrong? Could anyone help me out .

David