Hi, I wrote a script to initiate one of three blocks of code based on the query string. When I try to run the program on the web, it returns a 500 internal server error (it is CHMODed 755). For an example of what I type in: http://www.publicutilityhome.com/ssrubin/ssrubin.cgi?progid=entry The code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);

my $progid = param('progid');

if ($progid == "entry") {
    print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

    open FH, "entry-pool.dump" or die $!;
    my $SEP = "--------";
    local $/ = $SEP;

    my $line = <FH>;
    while (<FH>) {
       $line = $_ if rand($.) < 1;
    }
    close FH;

    $_ = $line;
    s!^\s*!!;
    s!$SEP\s*$!!;
    tr!\cM!!d;
    my($title, $link, $excerpt) = split /\n/, $_, 3;
    print <<HTML;
    <a href="$link">$title</a><br />
    $excerpt
    HTML

} elsif ($progid == "desc") {
    require "desc.conf";
    open (FILE, my $random_file);
    my @LINES=<FILE>;
    close(FILE);
    srand;

    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n$LINES[int rand(@LINES)]\n";
} elsif ($progid == "bush") {
    require "bush.conf";
    open (FILE, my $random_file);
    my @LINES=<FILE>;
    close(FILE);
    srand;

    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n$LINES[int rand(@LINES)]\n";
}
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