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<div>Yup, write a better tutorial and you will meet a bigger dummy
:-)</div>
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<div>I just knew that Jacques tutorial would work flawlessly. *
sigh *</div>
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<div>I know that my cgi-bin folder works because I have another .pl
item in there working.</div>
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<div>This is the .cgi script, exactly as Jacques suggested for the
initial run:</div>
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<div>#!revolution<br>
<br>
on startup<br>
put "Content-Type: text/plain" & cr & cr<br>
put "Hello World!"</div>
<div>end startup</div>
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<div>I tried two other pathways to the first line when the first
attempt failed:</div>
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<div>#!/cgi-bin/revolution</div>
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<div>#!http://fullPathTo/cgi-bin/revolution</div>
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<div>I uploaded the Windows Metacard.exe program and renamed it
revolution</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I set all permissions to 755.</div>
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<div>But no matter what I do, type in the full url in two different
browsers, and I get:</div>
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<div>Internal Server Error<br>
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
unable to complete your request.<br>
</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div><br>
More information about this error may be available in the server error
log.</div>
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<div>In studying the logs, two errors occur:</div>
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<div>Premature end of script headers</div>
<div>(8)Exec format error</div>
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<div>I thought maybe it did not like CR in the script so I tried LF.
Still a failure.</div>
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<div>:-(</div>
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