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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Master of Reality on 18 July 2002, 21:17
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I just put YaBB on my server and it doesnt work. After setting up YaBB I went to the YaBB.cgi file as i was told in the instructions. It gives me This error (http://www.egao.com/entertainment/bobhub/error.jpg). Anyone know how to solve this dilema?
Its not YaBBs fault, no CGI will work.
I thought i had the apache setup properly to run CGI anywhere, as i followed VoidMains advice.
[ July 18, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]
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Originally posted by Master of Reality / Bob:
I just put YaBB on my server and it doesnt work. After setting up YaBB I went to the YaBB.cgi file as i was told in the instructions. It gives me This error (http://www.egao.com/entertainment/bobhub/error.jpg). Anyone know how to solve this dilema?
Its not YaBBs fault, no CGI will work.
I thought i had the apache setup properly to run CGI anywhere, as i followed VoidMains advice.
[ July 18, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]
Would help b/c I set up UBB on my server but your link doesnt work :(
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egao is giving me problems.... I will move the pic to boomspeeed
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http://www.boomspeed.com/bobhub/error.jpg (http://www.boomspeed.com/bobhub/error.jpg)
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Can you just post the text of the error message so I don't have to unblock boomspeed?
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this was in the error log for apache:
[Error} (2) No such file or directory: exec of var/www/html/bobhub/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi failed
[client ***.***.***.***] Premature end of script headers: /var/www/html/bobhub/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi
it gives me the same thing with the perl_test.cgi that comes with ikonboard.
[ July 21, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]
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That actually means that it is executing the CGI program which is good. If it was not executing the CGI program it would display the source code instead, just like any other text file. Can you execute the script on the command line and have it run with no errors? If it runs with no errors on the command line but gives you a message about premature end of headers when you execute it through Apache it usually can be resolved by looking at the first couple of lines of the script (print statements). You may have to put this line as the first output line:
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
Also, in your error message you have "cgi-nin" as part of the directory path. Is that a typo?
[ July 18, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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first of all, i guess it would help to make it executable.
It still did the same thing.
I put that print statement: print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
and it still did the same thing
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Did you run the script on the command line as I suggested to make sure there isn't a problem with the script itself?
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I can't be much of assistance in this field but are you trying to use the perl that came with your distro? because you may be interested in mod_perl
http://perl.apache.org (http://perl.apache.org)
I can't help much with the installation but they do have good documentation and its much faster then using perl outside of apache.
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Personally, I'm not a big fan of mod_perl. I would rather use PHP in the instances where mod_perl would be beneficial. But I do like external Perl CGI for some things.
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i did run the script from the command line and it didnt give any errors
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Well if you reset my password I will go in and take a look at it. And if you make the directory writable to me I will make a backup copy of any script I modify and see if I can get it working for you...
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you want /etc/httpd/ writable... /var/www/html/bobhub/cgi-bin has the perl_text.cgi is the script i was trying to execute.
your password is the same as the one i sent you before (if you still have it)
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m0r, check your PM.
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Ok m0r, I have made a copy of your test script and fixed it so it works. Look at:
http://chatroom.fuckmicrosoft.com:8000/bobhub/cgi-bin/perl_test2.cgi (http://chatroom.fuckmicrosoft.com:8000/bobhub/cgi-bin/perl_test2.cgi)
Couple of things. First, you can't edit your Perl scripts on a Win* machine (you sick puppy) and then transfer the scripts to your *NIX machine and have them run without stripping the carriage returns '\r'. More specifically, the first line "#!/usr/bin/perl" can not be terminated with "\r\n", only "\n". DOS/Win terminates lines with a carriage return and a line feed. Unix terminates lines with only a line feed. You can strip them by transferring them to your *NIX box using FTP in "ASCII" mode or once they are on your server you can do this:
tr -d '\r' < script.cgi > newscript.cgi
Secondly, the number of newlines "\n" are key in the header output between the "Content-Type: text/html" and the "<HEAD>" tag. You had:
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
which is good, and then a blank line in front of your "<HTML>" tag. I removed the blank line and it worked.
And of course, the file needs to be readable and executable by the user that Apache runs under.
[ July 25, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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i got that script from an ikonboard download.
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So you are saying you downloaded it directly to your server or did you download it to your Winblows box and transfer it to the server from there? Either way, either the '\r's were in the file and they can't be. It's the difference between a DOS text file and a *NIX text file. If you downloaded it directly to your server then the smucks who wrote it wrote it on an M$ box.
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that was ikonboard... and now something tells me i dont want to use it.
After i dled/unzipped/installed YaBB i was told to run YaBB.cgi. It say ": bad interpreter : no such file or directory"
uhhh... what does this mean?
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That means the file needs to be stripped of the '\r's. You can do it as I mentioned above or you download a "dos2unix" script from the net (it does basically the same thing I showed you with the "tr" command above).
The first line in the script "#!/usr/bin/perl" *must* end with a '\n' only, not a '\r\n'.
Another easy way to convert it to UNIX format is to open the file in vim. If you do a ":w" it will write the file and if it shows "[dos]" on the bottom line it is in DOS format and will fail with the error message you posted. You can convert it to UNIX (strip the carriage returns) right in vim by doing a ":set fileformat=unix" then type ":w" and it should write the file without the carriage returns and not display a "[dos]" on the bottom line. It should then run properly.
Another way to check if there is a carriage return on the first line is do this (replace "script.cgi" with the name of the Perl CGI file you want to check):
head -1 script.cgi | od -c -w18
which should produce this:
If it has a carriage return it will look like this:
The first example is UNIX format, the second is DOS format.
[ July 26, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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after doing the 'tr' above it deleted all the content in YaBB.cgi
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Notice in my "tr" comand I use two different names. If you write your output to the same filename you are reading the input from you will indeed erase the contents of the file. So it is a two step process if you use the "tr" method. That is, do the "tr" command and send the output to a temporary file, then "mv" the temporary file over the original file. Use the "vim" method if you don't want to have to do two steps, or write a script that goes something like this:
and name it "dos2unix", make it executable and put it in your path. Of course you could also download and install the real "dos2unix" which will probably checks a few more things and come with some documentation. But it ultimately performs the same task.
Here's the RPM:
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=dos2unix (http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=dos2unix)
Use the one for RedHat 7.2 i386.
[ July 26, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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Of course i have dos2unix.
i installed every fucking program (and had to remove lots) on the RedHat installation CDROM. I chose every package.
I got YaBB working now.. no help to their fucking installation guide which made me learn all about permissions again.
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what error?
you must re-register since this is a completely different board.