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*[http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/http.html Quick reference to HTTP headers] | *[http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/http.html Quick reference to HTTP headers] | ||
*[[Perl/CGI|Perl CGI]] | *[[Perl/CGI|Perl CGI]] | ||
==Error 500== | |||
* Was your script uploaded to the server in 'text' mode? (Is your FTP client set to recognize .py files as text?) | |||
* Have you set the script permissions to mode 755 (executable by the web server)? | |||
* Have you set the path to the script interpreter in the first line correctly? | |||
* Did you print valid header lines, including the final blank line? | |||
* Finally, some servers require the script to be in the cgi-bin folder (or a subdirectory) and some even require the file extension to be .cgi rather than .py or .pl. | |||
Latest revision as of 14:24, 12 June 2007
Error 500
- Was your script uploaded to the server in 'text' mode? (Is your FTP client set to recognize .py files as text?)
- Have you set the script permissions to mode 755 (executable by the web server)?
- Have you set the path to the script interpreter in the first line correctly?
- Did you print valid header lines, including the final blank line?
- Finally, some servers require the script to be in the cgi-bin folder (or a subdirectory) and some even require the file extension to be .cgi rather than .py or .pl.
