Premature end of script headers

[RickD75]

Hi All,

We have migrated an old Plesk server (7.5) to Plesk 11. It seems everything worked out well, but we face one issue. Websites are not allowed to execute Perl script within the cgi-bin directory. Example: formmail.pl (chmod 755)

Error_log reports: Premature end of script headers. Anyone got an asnwer to this issue?

[Sun Feb 17 17:24:42 2013] [error] [client 192.168.1.220] failed to open log file /var/log/httpd/suexec_log
[Sun Feb 17 17:24:42 2013] [error] [client 192.168.1.220] fopen: Permission denied
[Sun Feb 17 17:24:42 2013] [error] [client 192.168.1.220] Premature end of script headers: formmail.pl

Thanks!

 

[Faris Raouf]

Check the ownership on the cgi-bin directory. It is likely to be wrong. This happened to me too after a migration.

Cross-check with a domain that you create on the new server from scratch for the right way for the owenership to be set. It is either domainuser.psacln or domainuser.psasrv. One of these gives you the error, the other is the right one. I'm afraid I don't remember exacly which one it is supposed to be :-(

 

[RickD75]

Dear Faris,

I have created a new domain on the server, this is what I have found:

drwxr-x--- 3 user-new-domain psaserv 4096 Feb 18 21:12 cgi-bin
drwxr-x--- 2 user-mig-domain psaserv 4096 Feb 17 17:24 cgi-bin

So, user-mig-domain is the dir thats migrated from the old server. user-new-domain is the new created cg-bin dir. Can you see anything wrong with it?

 

[Faris Raouf]

Argh! Those look fine and match mine. I thought it would be a simple fix :-(

What about the permissions on the file itself? Try adjusting those?

 

[RickD75]

The problem has been solved now, in my case it was caused by a missing Perl Package 'perl-CGI' that was not installed correct or not installed at all. An easy way to find out:

[root@machine cgi-bin]# perl formmail.pl

If you get an error, like 'Can't locate CGI.pm' it's most likely the Perl Package is missing.