[Asterisk-Users] Help Running am-main.pl Perl/CGI on Apache Server

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 01:18:59PM -0500, Shekhar Prasad wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've installed Asterisk on Linux Red Had 9.  Now, I was trying to set
> up a GUI based system for the PBX.
> I downloaded some packages, but I have to have Perl running CGI
> scripts through the webserver.  It does not allow me to.
> I am able to run a basic script that just just prints out html
> messages and nothing else.  However, when I try to run am-main.pl or
> config.pl or any other cgi-bin scripts that came with Asterisk, I get
> a 500 error: Premature End of Script Header.  I've tried changing the
> chmod to -x or 755 and also have included the header required to
> display the html script.  However, no luck.  I am able to run it in
> command line, but not through the Mozilla browser.
> 
> Is this enough information I've provided?  You can contact me directly
> if you need more information.

The error message means that your your script has returned an error
status, IIRC. Its standard error goes to /var/log/httpd/error_log in the
default RH9 config. Use less, tail or tail -f to get the relevant error
message (hint: press shift-G in less to jump to the end).

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