Question

I'm running a development environment to test our twiki. Having many problems with install, but the most pertinent is I can't even get the Testenv script running! Each time I get a "Premature end of script headers" message.

I've tried various combinations of chmod, chown and chgrp but nothing seems to be working.

Thanks.

Environment

-- JamesPollard - 21 Sep 2004

Answer

Could be caused by several things.

• File permission: The file not being executable, e.g. chmod +x the file. I had even a case where the cgi scripts had to be 755, and got the "Premature end of script headers" error with a 775 permission
• The #!/usr/bin/perl shibang line pointing to an incorrect location for the perl executable
• The Perl include path containing an entry pointing to Nirvana. Check the setlib.cfg settings

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-- PeterThoeny - 22 Sep 2004

Cheers, it turned out to be the shebang line. I've changed it in the testenv script to point to the xampp install of perl.

A follow up question is, do I have to do this for all the perl scripts? Or is there a config parameter I can set that will point them all to the right place? I already have a perl install on /usr/bin/perl so a symbolic link doesn't seem like a good idea.

-- JamesPollard - 21 Sep 2004

You need to do that for all Perls scripts. Alternatively, as you pointed out, create a sym link.

-- PeterThoeny - 23 Sep 2004