From: Sean Chittenden <sean@...>
Date: 2002-05-11T13:46:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Premature end of script headers

> 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 "<html><body>Hello World!</body></html>\r\n" 
> 
> this is saved as an asci file w/ unix breaks. 
> any ideas? 

Few things:

1) Do you have access to your error logs?
2) Are you running mod_ruby?
3) Remove the 'HTTP/1.0 200 OK' from your script, that's taken care of
   by apache.
4) Try the following:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

print "Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n"
puts  "Hello World"

5) Any chance you could install/use mod_ruby?  :~)  -sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden