[ic] 500 Internal Server Error (No Problems Apparant)

[Ed LaFrance]

At 04:44 PM 12/29/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>I've been playing with Interchange on a very old and slow Pentium machine
>locally running FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE and have now tried installing it on a
>dedicated server being hosted with C I Host, which is running "Linux
>2.4.20-ci #12 SMP" on an AMD Athlon XP 1700 machine.

It's off-topic, but I feel compelled to tell you: I hosted with C I Host 
for about 6 months one time in my darker past, and it was absolutely the 
worst hosting experience I ever had - chronic downtime and the most 
incompetent service and support imaginable. I ran away screaming and never 
looked back. I sincerely hope for your sake that they have cleaned up their 
act.


>I do a './configure' in the directory that I untar'd 4.9.5 into, followed by
>a 'make test' and 'make install'; the user is 'interch' and the directory
>'/usr/local/interchange'.  A catalog has been created ("foundation" using
>the tools for demo purposes) running in 'U' (user) mode with the catalog
>under /home/interch/catalogs/foundation.  The catalog files and program
>files are all owned by the user 'interch'
>
>Here is the output of './restart' : -
>
>- snip -
>Sending debug to /tmp/icdebug.
>Low traffic settings.
>Calling UI......UI is loaded...
>Interchange V4.9.5
>Configuring catalog foundation...Using default DBM database...done.
>Interchange server started in UNIX mode(s) (process id 27087)
>- snip -
>
>When I visit http://www.caliconn.co.uk/cgi-bin/foundation, I am greeted by a
>500 error, which logs the following in the Apache error log: -
>
>[Sun Dec 29 10:33:28 2002] [error] [client 62.31.224.3] Premature end of
>script headers: /www/caliconn/cgi-bin/foundation
>
>The /tmp/icdebug file contains only "Start DEBUG at Sun Dec 29 10:32:56
>2002" ~/catalogs/foundation/error.log is blank.  Incidentally, I'm running
>this on perl v5.8.0 freshly compiled this afternoon.  There doesn't appear
>to be a lot of information to help me debug this, so any suggestions would
>be most welcome.  The 'foundation' file in the /cgi-bin/ directory is set to
>run as user interch with SUID flag set; upon the advice of some other
>postings in the mailing list archive, I've tried 'chmod u-s foundation' but
>I get the same result.
>
>Regards, Ade.

Is apache using suexec? Try disabling it and restarting apache. Also, pay 
attention to this important note: 
http://www.icdevgroup.org/i/dev/docfly.html?mv_arg=icfaq12.00

- Ed L.

>

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