From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: After installing perl.5.8.0-88.3 cgi and pl scripts will no longer work in Apache. Prior to this release it worked. I have read in the news groups about this. There is also bug 90079 that was closed due to the opener converting to php. Here is a copy of my test script: #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "Hello, World."; when I try to open that URL I get: Server error! The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Error message: Premature end of script headers: first.pl If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster Error 500 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): perl-5.8.0-88.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to open URL to a pl script in Apache 2. 3. Actual Results: 500 Error Additional info:
I found that somehow the permissions on my /usr/bin directory got changes and apache didn't have permission to execute /usr/bin/perl Issue resolved!