From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2011-01-27T07:06:13+09:00
Subject: Re: rhtml and apache trouble

On 01/26/2011 01:40 PM, Mitul Ti wrote:
> I am trying to run embedded ruby inside rhtml.
>
> $cat test.rhtml
>
> <% print "Content-type: text/html\n\n" %>
>
>
>
> <html>
> <body>
> Testing<% foo = "Ruby"; print "#{foo}!" %>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
>
>
> It works fine from the command line:
>
> $eruby test.rhtml
>
>
> Content-type: text/html
>
>
> <html>
> <body>
> Testing Ruby!
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
>
> But inside my apache setup it doesn't work.
>
> Accessing "http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.rhtml" gives following error:
>
> "Internal Server Error
>
> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
> unable to complete your request.
>
> Please contact the server administrator, you@example.com and inform them
> of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that
> may have caused the error.
>
> More information about this error may be available in the server error
> log."
>
> Error log says:
>
> [Wed Jan 26 13:21:53 2011] [error] [client ::1] (8)Exec format error:
> exec of 'Dir/cgi-bin/test.rhtml' failed
> [Wed Jan 26 13:21:53 2011] [error] [client ::1] Premature end of script
> headers: test.rhtml
>
>
> I have copied "eruby" executable to "Dir/cgi-bin/" directory and
> configured apache (2.2) as follows:
>
> AddType application/x-httpd-eruby .rhtml
> Action application/x-httpd-eruby Dir/cgi-bin/eruby
>
> Any ideas? Thanks!
>
>    

Your .rhtml files shouldn't be in cgi-bin/, they should be in 
public_html/ or similar. Looks like Apache's trying to execute the 
.rhtml file, which isn't an executable.

-Justin