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User Manual :: Configuring CGI Scripts

The following settings will help you get your scripts up and running.

First, make sure that your script has the mode of 755 (user=r,w,x; group=r,x; other=r,x). If the permissions on your script are not set properly, you may not be giving the server enough access to execute/run the script. Or you may be giving the server too many permissions, and giving the ability to let other users on the system modify your script.
Make sure that you set your Paths Properly. Setting the paths improperly will either not allow the script to run, or it may not work properly, due to it not being able to write to important data files that it needs to operate.

Path to Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Web Path: /web/domain.com/www/
Path to Sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail -t

Common Scripting Error Messages

Below are the most commonly found, and asked questions regarding CGI scripts.

500 Internal Server Error:
The above error usally means one of three things. 1) The path to perl is incorrectly specified. 2) The script does not have execute permissions or 3) The script has bad syntax. To find more details about the error, you can see your sites error_log.
401/403 Access Forbidden:
The directory which the script is in, or the script itself, does not have read and execute privledges the server does not have sufficient access to let the file run. Fix the problem by updating the permissions (set to 755). If this does not fix the problem, check the path to perl that is specified on line one of the script.

Perl Syntax Error:
The below error message generally means that you specified invalid syntax. Check your script for coding errors near 'line 1' in 'somescript.cgi'.

Bareword found where operator expected at somescript.cgi
 line 1, near "somevariable"
        (Missing operator before somevariable?)
syntax error at somescript.cgi line 1, next token ???
Execution of somescript.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.

PHP Syntax Error:
The below error message generally means that you specified invalid syntax. Check your script for coding errors near 'line 1' in 'somescript.php'.
```
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_SOMETHING
 in somescript.php on line 1.
```

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