I have a working CGI Script that when served in a browser generates a cookie. As I needed to have a very similar script, I've made a copy with slight changes, and renamed the file.
However, although I can run the original fine, when I try to run the new one, I get a blank browser screen. System Error logs show (2)No such file or directory: exec of ... failed.
File permissions/ownerships are the same on the two files, and the filename is correct.
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Here are the files. They normally run embedded in image tags, but seem to run ok if I call them directly.
i.e.
Works ok:
http://www.247realmedia.co
Produces the error:
http://www.247realmedia.co
both domains (realmedia.com and 247realmedia.com) are the same server, and the different cookie domains are set from the image call, when these scripts are called from a website
i.e.
http://www.247realmedia.co
Ok, so I've figured it out!
As the files were updated on a Windows machine, it appears that there were dos characters somewhere in the file.
Running the cgi file from the command line:
> ./nph-247realmedia-opt-out
showed an error of bad interpreter: No such file or directorybin/perl
though the first line of the cgi file shows as #!/usr/bin/perl
The following steps solved the problem:
1) dos2unix FILENAME ---> resets owner and permissions
2) chown xxx:xxx FILENAME (to correct ownership)
3) chmod 775 FILENAME
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by: Adam314Posted on 2009-04-13 at 09:55:52ID: 24131099
From the error, it appears that this script is trying to execute another program, and that is what is failing. Can you attach the file? Do the error logs give you a line number?