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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:44:23 +0100
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Thread-Topic: [users@httpd] apache serves cgi error as application/x-perl
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From: "Boyle Owen" <Owen.Boyle@swx.com>
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Subject: RE: [users@httpd] apache serves cgi error as application/x-perl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony van der Hoff [mailto:lists_0504@vanderhoff.org]=20
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 4:02 PM
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [users@httpd] apache serves cgi error as=20
> application/x-perl
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> *BUMP*
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> Has no-one any clue about this, please. I'm beginning to tear=20
> my har out :(
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> On 7 Dec at 11:54 Tony van der Hoff=20
> <lists_0504@vanderhoff.org> wrote in
> message <gemini.j9wjqv08pf09s03u8.lists_0504@vanderhoff.org>
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> > Hi,
> >=20
> > Apologies if this has been raised before; I couldn't find=20
> anything similar
> > in the faq, nor the last 2 months archives.
> >=20
> > I recently upgraded from Apache 2.0 to 2.2. Adjusted the=20
> configuration
> > appropriately, and mostly everything works fine.
> >=20
> > However, when the server fails to execute a perl cgi script=20
> due to, say,
> > bad permissions, or a script error, i.e. "premature end of script
> > headers", it appears to generate the correct 500 error=20
> page, but serves it
> > as mime type appication/x-perl, instead of text/html. The=20
> previous version
> > handled this correctly.
> >=20
> > Error-free scripts work fine, so I don't think it's=20
> anything related to
> > ExecCGI, or addhandler.
> >=20
> > This must obviously be a problem with my configuration, but=20
> having fiddled
> > about for a few days, I've not progressed much further. Changing the
> > mime.types file for .pl to text/html is effective, but it=20
> doesnt feel like
> > the correct solution to the problem.

I rather think it might be... If the program works, the program itself
sets the mime-type. If it fails, the server returns a plain HTML file
and so has to decide for itself the mime-type. You must have set it to
application/x-perl somewhere.

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.=20

> >=20
> > Has anyone any hints, please?
> >=20
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> --=20
> Tony van der Hoff        | mailto:tony@vanderhoff.org
> Buckinghamshire, England
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