Premature End of Script Headers Mystery

[matt]

Hello all,

So, I'm migrating a site from my test-server (Powerbook running
Apache/Darwin BSD) to my web host and all my CGI scripts are giving me
that error. The header error is also the only error that's showing up
in the error_log.

I've checked all the usual suspects:

file permissions (775)
syntax (perl -Tc is clean)
malformed headers (using CGI.pm->header(), so not likely)
script runs fine from command line on web server (which I believe rules
out binary transfer and carraige returns)

The site is on a managed server which has an automated setup process,
so its highly unlikely that this is a bad ScriptAlias directive.

Any thoughts?

Matt

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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

matt wrote:
> I've checked all the usual suspects:
>
> file permissions (775)

<snip>

> The site is on a managed server which has an automated setup process,

One thought: If suEXEC is enabled, the group must not have write access.
Have you tried permissions 755?

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[ni...@asgard.webthing.com]

In article <1159526947.2...@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,

"matt" <leon...@hawaii.rr.com> writes:
> So, I'm migrating a site from my test-server (Powerbook running
> Apache/Darwin BSD) to my web host and all my CGI scripts are giving me
> that error. The header error is also the only error that's showing up
> in the error_log.

And in the suexec log?

> file permissions (775)

Too permissive. A security-minded server will refuse to run it.

Also check other 'usual suspects' such as SELinux.

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[J. Moreno]

ni...@asgard.webthing.com () wrote:
> In article <1159526947.2...@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
> "matt" <leon...@hawaii.rr.com> writes:
> > So, I'm migrating a site from my test-server (Powerbook running
> > Apache/Darwin BSD) to my web host and all my CGI scripts are giving me
> > that error. The header error is also the only error that's showing up
> > in the error_log.
>
> And in the suexec log?
>
> > file permissions (775)
>
> Too permissive. A security-minded server will refuse to run it.
>
> Also check other 'usual suspects' such as SELinux.

I recently saw a similar problem, where the server was refusing to run a
script because the DIRECTORY it was in was world-writeable (how the
directory became world writable is another question....).

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