Question

When I run the configure script I get the following error:

Server error! The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.

Error message: Premature end of script headers: configure

Error 500 server-name 11/20/06 11:37:42 Apache/2.2.2 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.1.4

I've tried running a test perl script (read:Hello World) from the same location and it worked without error.

I've also tried inserting print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; and use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/; into the configure script, but get no new information.

I'm running Winows XP SP2 with MS Services for UNIX with Xampp 1.5.3a

• Apache 2.2.2
• MySQL 5.0.21
• PHP 5.1.4 + PHP 4.4.2-pl1 + PEAR
• PHP-Switch win32 1.0 (use the "php-switch.bat")
• XAMPP Control Version 2.3 from www.nat32.com
• XAMPP Security 1.0
• SQLite 2.8.15
• OpenSSL 0.9.8b
• phpMyAdmin 2.8.1
• ADOdb 4.80
• Mercury Mail Transport System v4.01b
• FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.16c
• Webalizer 2.01-10
• Zend Optimizer 3.0.0

Not sure what I've done wrong here, any input would be great!

Environment

-- WilliamJohnston - 20 Nov 2006

Answer

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What is Apache's error_log saying? Some environments are picky with permissions of the cgi scripts, where 775 does not work, and 755 does.

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Nov 2006

[Mon Nov 20 12:21:03 2006] [error] [client 172.16.5.66] Premature end of script headers: configure [Mon Nov 20 12:21:03 2006] [error] [client 172.16.5.66] Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: .) at C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs/TWiki/bin/configure line 47.\r [Mon Nov 20 12:21:03 2006] [error] [client 172.16.5.66] BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs/TWiki/bin/configure line 47.\r

-- WilliamJohnston - 22 Nov 2006

Something is wrong with the Perl setup on your system, strict.pm is a standard Perl module. I am not familiar with Perl on Windows, but you might need to rename configure to configure.pl

-- PeterThoeny - 22 Nov 2006