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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:45:03
Message-Id: 20070704163948.GA26427@princeton.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel? by David Relson
1 On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:28:30AM -0400, Penguin Lover David Relson squawked:
2 > After saving your script to /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/makeindex.perl
3 > and running "chmod +x ...", I pointed firefox at
4 > http://localhost/cgi-bin/makeindex.perl and got the following:
5 >
6 > Internal Server Error
7 >
8 > The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and
9 > was unable to complete your request.
10 >
11 > Please contact the server administrator, root@localhost and inform
12 > them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have
13 > done that may have caused the error.
14 >
15 > More information about this error may be available in the server
16 > error log.
17 >
18 > Looking in /var/log/apache2/error_log I found
19 >
20 > [Wed Jul 04 10:22:06 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] malformed
21 > header from script. Bad header=<head><title>Index of /usr/sha:
22 > makeindex.perl
23 >
24 >
25 > Looking at other simple scripts lead me to add
26 >
27 > print "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n\n";
28 >
29
30 I doubt that his script (which he mentions is to be run in cron) is
31 meant to actually be placed in the cgi-bin directory for apache.
32
33 It would certainly be annoying to need to have an apache server
34 running just to read documentation.
35
36 W
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38 When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel? Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net>