Problem with Apache Web Server

[Mike Cantrell]

One other thing, if it is the open function that is causing your request to fail,
try this:

open(FILE,  ">>../data.files/contents.list")  || die "Can't open file handle: $!";

The  || die ("reason") will cause standard error to be written and if you have
httpd.conf setup correctly, this should write to the error log along with the reason
why it failed, and the line number of the script that caused the failure.

Hope it helps,
Mike Cantrell

>
> Rick Rosinski wrote:
>
> > I am running a stand-alone web server on my Slackware box.
> > I use it to set up my web site before uploading it to a virtual host.
> > The problem that I have is with the perl script that generates the table of
> > contents for the left frame of my web site (http://www.rickrosinski.com)
> > The copy on the virtual host works fine, but the same script generates an
> > internal server error, and the table of contents is not generated.  This was
> > not a problem on the SuSE system that I once had set up on the same box.
> > I had narrowed the problem down to this:  It seems that when any "open (FILE,
> > ">>../data.files/contents.list") is encountered, it crashes with the Internal
> > Server Error.  I am running as root, all file permissions seem correct, and the
> > same scripts work fine on the virtual server.  Also, all scripts that don't
> > involve file access work fine on the local server.  I am using Apache 1.3.12.
> > Also, when I just run "perl /cgi-bin/contents.cgi", the correct HTML is
> > generated, including the table of contents from "../data.files/contents.list".
> >
> > So, I think that there is a problem with Apache and file access.  Perl works
> > fine, and the virtual host works fine.  What could be wrong with Apache?
> >
> > --
> > Rick Rosinski
> > http://www.rickrosinski.com
> > rick@rickrosinski.com
> >
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