Help with an Internal Server Error?

[David G]

Just purchased a website (which uses CGI script) at dnf but keep on getting this error message when accessing the various links on the site.

Have spent many hrs researching this and see the error message is a surprisingly common problem (31,000 returns on Google). The suggestions I found to fix it all failed to help. Anyone here know what to do?

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Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

 

[diederik]

Have you got CPanel with your webhosting account ?
If you have, you can easily view the error logs (should be possible with other control panels, too)

p.s. feel free to contact me on ICQ if you need help

 

[Domagon]

How did you upload the script? If using FTP, the script must be uploaded in ASCII mode (that's the default).

Did you change the permissions? -if you didn't, then that's likely the (or part of) problem. Change the permissions for all scripts to 755 - the FTP command is QUOTE SITE CHMOD 755 scriptname.cgi

If the above two things are correct and still errors, then check that the server path (some scripts grab the path from the environment, but many don't) is correct in the script?

Ron