Having problems with apache and CGI...

[OPM]

I can't seem to get any of my CGI's running at all. Specifically, i'm talking about ikonboard. I can't seem to reach my installer.cgi. And when i rename installer.cgi to installer.pl, it prompts me to download it (which i obviously don't want). Any and all help would be appreciated.

PS. I seem to have problems with ScriptAlias too.

[sixf00t4]

try this thread

Apache Newbie Questions

an other q's after that let me(us) know

[OPM]

heh, i've read so many forums and pages and FAQs that it hurts. Okay, my specific problem is this:

I have my /cgi-bin/ empty. my ScriptAlias points to c:/board/installer.cgi

When i try http://localhost/cgi-bin/installer.cgi, I get a 500 internal server error. I've already went into installer.cgi and changed the top line to that it points to my perl.exe

I can't figure out the problem for the life of me.

[sixf00t4]

ok...the problem is that apache does not have access to that folder. my recommendation would be to bring ikonboard to your htdocs folder.

[OPM]

Okay, thanks. I'll try that out as soon as i can. But should i create a new folder in htdocs? or should I just move all the files into htdocs?

[OPM]

i put the installer.cgi (along with the rest of the files) into my htdocs folder, but to no avail. do you have anymore suggestions? I still get the 500 internal server error.

[gothic]

Paste the error from the apache logfile.

[OPM]

[Tue Sep 10 02:56:44 2002] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (2)No such file or directory: couldn't spawn child process: c:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs/installer.cgi

[OPM]

not a very helpful error log =(

[gothic]

Is the very first line of the file pointing to the location of PERL? (Is it the correct location? =])

Also, does Apache have access to that directory (Read/Execute)?