No special reason

mizzy — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 18:21:43 +0000

No special reason except that I find that If I use an old cgi script it tends to operate more smoothly with an older version of perl. Kind of like running a program for windows 95 on windows 2000.

m0dulus — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:56:50 +0000

Just out of curiosity, why would a server have 2 versions of perl? Why not just use the new version??

thanka

mizzy — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:10:29 +0000

I have found what the problem was. I had two versions of perl running on my server and I happened to point to the wrong version for the script.
Thanks all

Andrew — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:53:30 +0000

What are your error logs telling you?

Is the CGI written in perl? If so are you using -w? (This will print more detailed error and warnings to you logs.)

Also the CGI::CARP module can print fatal errors right to your browser:

use CGI::Carp qw(carpout fatalsToBrowser);

the thing is..

mizzy — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:36:03 +0000

the thing is, it was running fine. I managed to run the script but all of a sudden I just started getting the 500 error. hmmm

m0dulus — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:01:13 +0000

500 error.. internal server error hmm... you probably set up the paths wrong (if it was a premade script) or if you coded it by hand, you probably forgot something like the script headers.