From: Pat Eyler <pate@...>
Date: 2002-05-11T06:14:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Premature end of script headers

On Sat, 11 May 2002, ccos wrote:

> hey there,
> thanks for the speedy reply.
> i tried usr/local/bin/ruby
> and nothing.

Can you run the scripts from the command line?

[pate@gnupate scratch]$ for i in cgi*; do
> echo $i
> echo ===file======
> cat $i
> echo ===output====
> ./$i
> echo =============
> done
cgi.pl
===file======
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n";
print "Hello, World.\r\n";
===output====
Content-type: text/html

Hello, World.
=============
cgi.rb
===file======
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n"
print "<html><body>Hello World!</body></html>\r\n"
===output====
Content-type: text/html

<html><body>Hello World!</body></html>
=============

the scripts themselves look fine

-pate
> i also tried running a perl script from usr/bin/perl
> and i get the same error:
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n";
> print "Hello, World.";
>
> what do you think?
> regards,
> c
> On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 06:24  AM, Pat Eyler wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 11 May 2002, Pat Eyler wrote:
> >
> >> 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:
> >>>
> >
> > doh! I should have seen this before I sent the mail
> >
> >>> #!/usr/local/bin ruby             <<  i think this is right?
> >     #!/usr/local/bin/ruby   #assuming ruby is in /usr/local/bin
> >
> >>>
> >>> print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n"
> >>> print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n"
> >>> print "<html><body>Hello World!</body></html>\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
> >
> >> -pate
> >>
> >>
> >>> thanks much,
> >>> _c
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>