From: Pat Eyler Date: 2002-05-11T05:20:45+09:00 Subject: Re: Premature end of script headers On Sat, 11 May 2002, ccos wrote: > hello, > i'm new to ruby, unix, apache, and cgi, so i feel like i'm wrestling a > four headed dragon, well more like wrestling a three headed dragon and > patting a friendly goat. > i keep getting: > Premature end of script headers: /Library/WebServer/CGI- > Executables/cgiTrial2.cgi > in my apache error log. > im running os x with Marc Liyanage's distro, freshly installed. > i don't think it's not a permissions problem, the file is chmod 755'd. > my file is called cgiTrial2.cgi and contains: > > #!/usr/local/bin ruby << i think this is right? > > print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n" > print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n" > print "Hello World!\r\n" > > this is saved as an asci file w/ unix breaks. > any ideas? what happens when you run the script from the command line? -pate > thanks much, > _c >