Problem getting cgi script to work with apache?

[Knute Johnson]

>On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 11:49 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> >>Add the following line to the top of your script:
>> >>
>> >>#!/usr/bin/perl
>> >>
>> >
>> >Yes I'm sorry I actually had that in the script and took it out to 
>> >test and didn't put it back before I posted.  It doesn't work with it 
>> >either.
>> 
>> Paul, et al:
>> 
>> I am really screwed up here.  It did need the #!/usr/bin/perl but 
>> that wasn't what was causing my problem.  Seems there is some file 
>> incompatibility with my script file that I downloaded from my BSD 
>> server.  When I copied the file with VIM it got smaller and now works 
>> just fine.  I don't know what the problem is but it works now.  I've 
>> noticed similar problems going the other way, moving files to the BSD 
>> server.
>
>Did the file get smaller by a number of bytes equal to the number of
>lines in the script?
>
>Paul.

Paul:

No it was almost twice as many lines.  But I think that is where the 
problem is.  Another fellow suggested that I try dos2unix and that 
makes a file exactly the same size as the VIM copied one that works.  
I just tried it and that has fixed my problem.  I had no clue that 
perl was sensitive to carriage returns.

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Knute Johnson
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