From: Rasputin <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2003-12-18T14:53:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as CGI with Apache on Linux

* Zach Dennis <zdennis@mktec.com> [1204 01:04]:
> I feel bad for asking this question, but I am going to pull my hair out with
> this. I recently got Ruby to run as a cgi under Apache2/Win2k combination.
> Works great. I am now trying to do the same thing on Apache2/Redhat9 combo,
> but to no avail. I keep getting the Server Error 500, premature end of
> script headers.

> -----------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
> print "Content-type: text/html\r\n"

Change to ' print "Content-type: text/html\n\n" '

> print "<html><body>Hello</body></html>"
 
> I was having this problem on my windows box at first but then I changed the
> first line to read:
> #! ruby
> and it has worked ever since. However I have changed the first line on my
> test.rb file on the Linux box to the following variations:
> #! ruby
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
> #!/bin/ruby
> #!/bin/env ruby
> #! /bin/env ruby

Run 'which ruby' in a shell and set the path in the shebang line
(the #! line above to whatever you get back).

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