"Hello World!" not working

[Admin]

Hi Guys, I'm new to Perl, and I'm trying an "Hello World!" script but it's
not working. I tried it on 3 different servers and I always get "Internal
Server Error". Here's the script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "hello world.\n\n";

The path to Perl is indeed /usr/bin/perl and I use a .pl or .cgi
extension. The script is in the cgi-bin folder. The file has 755
permissions. What is wrong?

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi Guys, I'm new to Perl, and I'm trying an "Hello World!" script but
it's not working. I tried it on 3 different servers and I always get
"Internal Server Error". Here's the script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "hello world.\n\n";

The path to Perl is indeed /usr/bin/perl and I use a .pl or .cgi
extension. The script is in the cgi-bin folder. The file has 755
permissions. What is wrong?

Maybe you uploaded it from a Windows box to a *nix server in binary
mode. Try ASCII transfer mode instead.

Another thing you can try is adding a switch to the shebang line, e.g.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

 

[Shane]

Hi Guys, I'm new to Perl, and I'm trying an "Hello World!" script but it's
not working. I tried it on 3 different servers and I always get "Internal
Server Error". Here's the script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "hello world.\n\n";

The path to Perl is indeed /usr/bin/perl and I use a .pl or .cgi
extension. The script is in the cgi-bin folder. The file has 755
permissions. What is wrong?

is cgi-bin/printenv working?
if not, have a look at apaches httpd.conf

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

Hi Guys, I'm new to Perl, and I'm trying an "Hello World!" script but
it's not working. I tried it on 3 different servers and I always get
"Internal Server Error". Here's the script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "hello world.\n\n";

The path to Perl is indeed /usr/bin/perl and I use a .pl or .cgi
extension. The script is in the cgi-bin folder. The file has 755
permissions. What is wrong?

Who knows?

What did you see when you checked the error log?

Oh, and, why are you lying about the content type?

Sinan

 

[Sherm Pendley]

Hi Guys, I'm new to Perl, and I'm trying an "Hello World!" script but
it's not working. I tried it on 3 different servers and I always get
"Internal Server Error". Here's the script:

Have you read (and followed) the advice in the Perl FAQ?

perl -q 500

There are two very useful links in there.

sherm--

 

[Admin]

Have you read (and followed) the advice in the Perl FAQ?

Thank you. I didn't change anything, but for some reason, the "Hello
World" script is working now

 

[Big and Blue]

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

So, you say you're going to send HTML, but then...

print "hello world.\n\n";

...you sedn ordinary text (ie: text/plain).

You don't just have a Perl problem here.

PS: I'm convinced I made a similar reply to a similar post about a month
ago. Ah, yes. That was from "NullBlock". Only difference was (s)he
spelt "Hello, World." correctly (but you've both omintted the !).

So, has "NullBlock" been promoted to "admin"?