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Included JavaScript causes "Premature end of script headers"

My web page, top.html, includes the following line:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="../cgi-bin/putdisplay.js"></SCRIPT>

Now there are two ways to call top.html, without or with subdomain. Without subdomain, the URL is

http://www.dralex.com/albumwizz/hike/top.html

and everything works nicely.

If I call the same top.html using subdomain:

http://albumwizz.dralex.com/hike/top.html,

I get the following error message, "Premature end of script headers: /home/dralex2/public_html/albumwizz/cgi-bin/putdisplay.js". In that case, top.html is displayed correctly, but the JavaScript is not included.

Any ideas?

Michel Plungjan

That is because the js files are not found and return

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>500 Internal Server Error</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Internal Server Error</h1>
The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.<p>
Please contact the server administrator,
wwwadmin@dralex.com and inform them of the time the error occurred,
and anything you might have done that may have
caused the error.<p>
More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.<p>
<p>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
<hr>
<address>Apache/1.3.27 Server at albumwizz.dralex.com Port 80</address>

</body></html>

which is invalid

Michel Plungjan

and later I get
Error: parent.frames.topFrame has no properties
Source File: http://www.dralex.com/albumwizz/cgi-bin/putdisplay.js
Line: 62

and Line 10

on the first url

Michel Plungjan

when clicking on the index

Zvonko

If you open http://albumwizz.dralex.com/ you will see that nothing is working correctly.
Repair that virtual server configuration first.
Afterwards should be your JavaScript included correctly for both domain names.

Good luck,
Zvonko

Michel Plungjan

It is so strange that so many sites do not handle the domain name without www

karnovsk

ASKER

Well I think I have the answer.

Apparently, the web server is configured so that each top level cgi-bin directory can contain only CGI files. Whatever file it meets, be it .js or .gif, it attempts to execute it. All .htaccess settings are ignored. That's what happens when I use the subdomain, http://albumwizz.dralex.com: cgi-bin becomes a top-level directory. Hence all the "Premature end of script headers." messages.

When I don't use subdomain, i.e. use URL http://www.dralex.com/albumwizz, cgi-bin becomes a lower-level directory, and my .htaccess setings start working.

Therefore, the practical solution was to move out all non-executable files out of cgi-bin. It worked!

Best regards and thank you all for your efforts.

Alex

Michel Plungjan

post a question in community support and ask them to PAQ and refund, please

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Included JavaScript causes &quot;Premature end of script headers&quot;

Included JavaScript causes "Premature end of script headers"