Still hard.. Guestbook that is....

[tmax]

Hello, I'm John.
I'm still trying to install a guestbook.
I'm trying to install free guestbook from F-Quest. I've uploaded CGI file, chmode 755, and try to get in by entering
http://www.hollywoodband.com/cgi-bin/guestbook.cgi
And I'm getting error 500, saying
Premature end of script headers: /big/dom/xhollywoodband/cgi-bin/guestbook.cgi

Where do I go from here?
Am I a complete idiot?
Thank you.

[Justin]

I'm not all that familiar with guestbook scripts, but did you upload in ASCII format? A script won't run right unless uploaded in ASCII / Text format.



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Justin Nelson, SFE Inc.
http://www.vdj.net

[Del]

Hiya John,

Double check that you didn't accidentally delete any quotes or semicolons while you were editing the file.

Also check out your error logs, located at /big/dom/xdomain/logs_web and /big/dom/xdomain/logs_cgi They can be immensely helpful when debugging a perl program.

Finally, log in to your account via telnet, cd to your cgi-bin directory, and type the following;

perl -cw guestbook.cgi

and see what the response is. That will run the Perl debugger against your script and tell you what the problem is, if any.

Hope this helps



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Del
www.downinit.com (http://www.downinit.com)

I use ta couldnt even spell student, n now I are one!

[Deb]

Hey tmax,

The susogi.net & lils.net guestbooks are working but the fquest one is still down & out..

Went ahead and had it installed directly to your domain....

The URL to the entries is www.hollywoodband.com/guestbook.html
and the URL to the script (for adding new entries) is
www.hollywoodband.com/cgi-bin/guestbook.cgi

You can edit any html you want in guestbook.html, as long as you do not touch anything in between
<!--begin--> and <!--end of guestbook entries-->

That should do it http://www.aota.net/ubb/wink.gif

Deb

[tmax]

I do thank you for your help.
This is wonderful.
I'm learning....
Thank you.
Thank you.