CGI Error

mhoward has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am having problems with my installation of perl! I have just installed it onto my Win2000 web server, but every time I click on a link to my .pl file I receive this error... CGI Error The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

Can't locate newsadmin_settings.pl in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/lib C:/Perl/site/lib .) at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Departments\IT\2ndLineSupport\Home\main\cgi-bin\news\newsadmin.pl line 28.

Has anyone got any ideas? I have checked permissions, file types etc.. Now I am stuck!

Edit kudra, 2001-09-29 Added formatting that was in duplicate version

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Re: CGI Error by tachyon (Chancellor) on Sep 27, 2001 at 18:33 UTC
You need to post the code in newsadmin.pl. The error you are getting indicates that the first thing coming out of your script is not the required "Content-type: text/html\n\n" header but an error message. It appears the perl thinks that line 28 in newsadmin.pl is "use newsadmin_settings.pl" but that it can't find this (module) in @INC. Code would help. cheers tachyon s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print	[reply]
Re: CGI Error by cfreak (Chaplain) on Sep 27, 2001 at 20:36 UTC
Sounds like your app has an error in it (can't locate the newsadmin_setting.pl) The CGI header error sounds like you don't have the headers specified when your program throws an exception. Usually you have to do `print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";` to get the correct headers Either that or if you are using CGI.pm `print $cgi->header()` Most likely if you fix the error of not finding the other script you are trying to call then the header issue will go away. But as a previous poster stated, you need to post the code so that we can tell for sure what the problem is.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: CGI Error by suaveant (Parson) on Sep 27, 2001 at 18:11 UTC
have you checked for the file newsadmin_settings.pl and made sure it is in your perl include path? The cgi can't find that file (in a require probably) which is being called within C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Departments\IT\2ndLineSupport\Home\main\cgi-bin\news\newsadmin.pl, and is failing with an error - Ant - Some of my best work - Fish Dinner	[reply]
Re: Re: CGI Error by mhoward (Initiate) on Sep 27, 2001 at 18:29 UTC
I take it you mean my #!.. path at the top of the scipt? I am under the impression that this path is not used within WinNT/2000? Is that not correct? My newsadmin_settings.pl file is in the same location as the .pl file I am attempting to access As you can tell...I am a beginner! I have this on a different web server, and it works with no problems	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: CGI Error by suaveant (Parson) on Sep 27, 2001 at 18:36 UTC
if newsadmin.pl is the file you are running try one of the following... add -I. to your #! line... or put use lib '.'; before your require for newsadmin_settings.pl... or `use lib 'path_settings_is_in';` - Ant - Some of my best work - Fish Dinner	[reply] [d/l]


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