internal server error (500) in simple cgi script

apache, cgi, python

Solution

You might need a `#!/usr/bin/python` at the top of your script to tell Apache to use Python to execute it. At least, I did that and it worked for me :-) .

Problem

I am trying to run a simple cgi script after configuring my server. My script looks like this: ``` print "Content-type: text/html" print print "<html><head><title>CGI</title></head>" print "<body>" print "hello cgi" print "</body>" print "</html>" ``` When I go to my scripts url `http://127.0.0.1/~flybywire/cgi-bin/main.py` I get: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. And in `error.log` I get the following: ` [error] (8)Exec format error: exec of '/home/flybywire/www/cgi-bin/main.py' failed [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: main.py ` Other info: `Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.6 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80`

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