sybperl-l Archive

From: Roleigh Martin <rol at uhc dot com>
Subject: Error: HTTPd: malformed header from script problem -- any clues?
Date: Jan 5 1999 10:19PM

Oops--Eudora messed up my prior email message, formatting wise.
I changed my options to be "plain text only" and am resending
the below--sorry.

--Roleigh

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Re: Error: HTTPd: malformed header from script problem

Mike Peppler (or others who are familiar with this problem), 

Our unix support person has reinstalled Perl5.004, sybperl-2.10 
on a AIX (RS/6000 computer -- see version info below).

Your advice to fix the 'bad exec format' worked.  The onion is 
getting smaller. Thank you very much for your help.

Now when I execute the following short HTML file and CGI script, 
I get this output (HTML and CGI script is in the appendix below):

>which perl
/usr/local/gnu/perl5.004/perl

/usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/qstar>perl test_install2.cgi

(offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input)

[Ctrl-D entered - below stdout appears]

Content-Type: text/html




But when I execute the below HTML (same HTML file) online (ie, 
the CGI script is executed via HTML-invoking), I get this output 
in my browser:

500 Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and 
was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server 
administrator, nerds@uhc.com and inform them of the time the 
error occurred , and anything you might have done that may have 
caused the error.

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| Error: HTTPd: malformed header from script                       | 
| /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/qstar/test_install2.cgi                 |
|                                                                  |
| I believe the problem is that the Unix (AIX RS/6000 server)      |
| chokes on this line:                                             |
|                                                                  | 
|                    | 
|                                                                  |  
| Do you have any hunch on what to tell our unix support person?   |
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Thanks in advance.

Roleigh Martin



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test_install2.html
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Test Install2 of CGI 

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test_install2.cgi
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#!/usr/local/gnu/perl5.004/perl -w

use strict;
use Sybase::DBlib;
use CGI ':standard';
my $query = new CGI;
my $pwd='qstrdbo';
my $database='QSTRDEV';
my $user='qstrdbo';
my $server='BISDEV11';
my $dbh = new Sybase::DBlib $user, $pwd, $server;
$dbh->dbuse($database);

print $query->header;
print $query->start_html('Sysusers Query');
print $query->end_html;

$dbh->dbclose;
exit(0);
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AIX Version information:
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AIX Version 3
(C) Copyrights by IBM and by others 1982, 1993.

>uname -a
AIX polaris 1 4 000189097000
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