Re: [cobalt-users] Universal CGI-BIN Problem

["WebWorkshop" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> have you tried to run FormMail.pl from shell? Error output might give
> you more information than just "Internal Server Error".
>

Yes, when I try to run it from the shell it comes back with the HTML output
for the "request method" not being valid; this code is generated by the
FormMail.pl program, which indicates to me the problem is with my cgi-sys
directory and not the script itself.

Any other suggestions? (Original message below)


~ Chris Calabrese
WebWorkshop Webmaster
http://www.webworkshop.org


>
> > Hi, I had a universal CGI-BIN on my RaQ 4r, which I implemented by
adding
> > "ScriptAlias /cgi-sys/ /usr/cgi-sys/" to the srm.conf. In there I put
> > FormMail.pl; this was working fine. Today I noticed it stopped working
(it
> > may have stopped working before today, I just found out about it today).
> > When I try to run the script, I get "The server encountered an internal
> > error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request."
> >
> > I've gone and checked and made sure everything's right (the script is
> > chmod-ed to 755, the ScriptAlias line is still in the srm.conf, etc.).
I'm
> > wondering if one of the Cobalt security patches I've applied to the
server
> > has messed things up somehow. I tried uploading a "fresh" copy of
> > FormMail.pl, and this didn't fix things. Does anyone have any ideas how
to
> > fix this?
> >
> > ~ Chris Calabrese
> > WebWorkshop Webmaster
> > http://www.webworkshop.org
> >