CGI for dummies failed

[Shari]

Yup, write a better tutorial and you will meet a bigger dummy :-)

I just knew that Jacques tutorial would work flawlessly.  * sigh *

I know that my cgi-bin folder works because I have another .pl item 
in there working.

This is the .cgi script, exactly as Jacques suggested for the initial run:

#!revolution

on startup
   put "Content-Type: text/plain" & cr & cr
   put "Hello World!"
end startup

I tried two other pathways to the first line when the first attempt failed:

#!/cgi-bin/revolution

#!http://fullPathTo/cgi-bin/revolution


I uploaded the Windows Metacard.exe program and renamed it revolution

I thought maybe by old Metacard did not support CGI so I downloaded 
the Windows RunRev player app and tried uploading it, renaming it 
revolution.

I set all permissions to 755.

But no matter what I do, type in the full url in two different 
browsers, and I get:

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.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

In studying the logs, two errors occur:

Premature end of script headers
(8)Exec format error

I thought maybe it did not like CR in the script so I tried LF. 
Still a failure.

:-(

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