Using CGI and GD modules

[James]

test.cgi script shown below is adapted from the "CGI programming" book
(chap.13).
There's no problem with installation of GD module and generation of PNG
file.
However, on the web, it gives the following error.

Is this a script error, or apache2 configuration error?

============================

Server error!

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete
your request.

Error message:
Premature end of script headers: test.cgi

============================
$ cat test.cgi

use CGI;
use GD::Graph::bars;

$cgi = new CGI;
$g = new GD::Graph::bars;

@data = ( [qw(A B C D E F)], [qw(1 2 3 4 5 6)] );

$g->set(
x_label => 'X',
y_label => 'Y',
title => 'TITLE',
show_values => \@data
);

$graph = $g->plot(\@data);

print $cgi->header( -type => 'image/png', -expires => '-1d' );

binmode STDOUT;

print $graph->png;
============================

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

James

 

[Bengt-Arne Fjellner]

test.cgi script shown below is adapted from the "CGI programming" book
(chap.13).
There's no problem with installation of GD module and generation of PNG
file.
However, on the web, it gives the following error.

Is this a script error, or apache2 configuration error?

============================

Server error!

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete
your request.

Error message:
Premature end of script headers: test.cgi

============================
$ cat test.cgi

#! /usr/bin/perl # or whereever your perl is.
#also
use warnings; # always good to have

use CGI;
use GD::Graph::bars;

$cgi = new CGI;
$g = new GD::Graph::bars;

@data = ( [qw(A B C D E F)], [qw(1 2 3 4 5 6)] );

$g->set(
x_label => 'X',
y_label => 'Y',
title => 'TITLE',
show_values => \@data
);

$graph = $g->plot(\@data);

print $cgi->header( -type => 'image/png', -expires => '-1d' );

binmode STDOUT;

print $graph->png;
============================

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

James

 

[Sherm Pendley]

test.cgi script shown below is adapted from the "CGI programming" book
(chap.13).
There's no problem with installation of GD module and generation of PNG
file.
However, on the web, it gives the following error.

Is this a script error, or apache2 configuration error?

The FAQ has a link to some good troubleshooting tips:

perldoc -q 500

The first and most obvious thing to do is to get a better error message.

Look in your server's error log. That's where you'll find the error message
that was actually printed by Perl; the message you see in your browser is
just the server complaining that it received Perl's error message instead
of the CGI headers that it expected.

You should also add this to your script, immediately after "use CGI;":

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

If the server has CGI::Carp available - and it should, it's a core module in
recent Perls - that will result in a more-informative error page instead of
the generic one you see now.

sherm--

 

[Sherm Pendley]

use warnings; # always good to have

use strict; # Best to have that too

sherm--

 

[Bengt-Arne Fjellner]

use strict; # Best to have that too

Yes but i didnt want to clean the script to that level.....

 

[James]

Look in your server's error log. That's where you'll find the error message
that was actually printed by Perl; the message you see in your browser is
just the server complaining that it received Perl's error message instead
of the CGI headers that it expected.

Thanks for the advice.
I could resolve the problem with the error log.

Can't load
'/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/sun4-solaris/auto/GD/GD.so' for
module GD: ld.so.1: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No such file or
directory at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/sun4-solaris/DynaLoader.pm line
230.

The gcc compiler (ver 3.X) needs this libgcc_s.so.1 file in
/usr/local/lib, which is not
in the default runtime library paths for the CGI script.


James

 

[Rajesh]

your server does not have the module GD::Graph::bars