Question
I have just installed twiki, gone through the configure script and everything comes up green. No other script works. Calling a url like: http://myhost/twiki/bin/view.pl
generates the following:
<html><head> <title>500 Internal Server Error</title> </head><body>(Yes, it shows up as html source instead of being parsed by the browser; that holds for both ie7 and firefox.) Similar result occur for any other script (such as login.pl) and from localhost or form another machine. No message shows up in the apache error log. The access log shows a 500 error:
192.168.1.199 - - [03/Jul/2007:09:25:05 -0700] "GET /twiki/install.html HTTP/1.1" 304 - 192.168.1.199 - - [03/Jul/2007:09:58:34 -0700] "GET /twiki/bin/view HTTP/1.1" 404 212 192.168.1.199 - - [03/Jul/2007:09:58:48 -0700] "GET /twiki/bin/view.pl HTTP/1.1" 500 541 127.0.0.1 - - [03/Jul/2007:10:07:24 -0700] "GET /twiki/bin/view.pl HTTP/1.1" 500 541 127.0.0.1 - - [03/Jul/2007:10:10:44 -0700] "GET /twiki/bin/login.pl HTTP/1.1" 500 541No doubt it's an easy configuration change, maybe even something I missed or overlooked. Nonetheless, I'm stuck. What should I do next?
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If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box. bin directory in your installation, and run:
perl -T viewThis should print a complete (somewhat lengthy) HTML page. If it does, check whether the web server's user id has read and execute permissions to your scripts. If it doesn't, well - maybe the error message gives a hint. -- HaraldJoerg - 03 Jul 2007 Added aliases for /bin and for / in the hppd.conf (as per ShorterUrlCookbook) and now at least get an error message. Does this provide any insight? [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: view.pl [error] [client 127.0.0.1] "-T" is on the #! line, it must also be used on the command line at C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\twiki\\bin\\view.pl line 1.\r -- TWikiGuest - 03 Jul 2007 This looks like you are running under mod_perl? If so, add
PerlSwitches -Tto your
httpd.conf. Or, as a workaround, remove the -T option from the first line of all of your scripts. This disables some security checks, but from your IP address from the logfile I assume you are running in a private network.
Otherwise I'm lost (but maybe windows folks may help).
-- HaraldJoerg - 03 Jul 2007
Thanks. Removing the T worked. Now it does other ugly stuff that's not part of this question. 
-- TWikiGuest - 03 Jul 2007
Topic revision: r5 - 2007-07-03 - TWikiGuest
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