Trouble with Apache

Junior WebHelper Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 15

Its my first time with apache, and i'm running it off of my Win XP machine and for some reason it won't serve up my html documents. My Pearl is working fine, but for some reason every time i try to load purple.html, it gives me error 500. Anyone want to help me with this one?

My HTML code is:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="86400; URL=index2.html">
<TITLE>www.purple.com</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#DD00FF">

<P></P>
</BODY>
</HTML>

And my error log reads:

[Fri Aug 08 09:18:24 2003] [error] [client ***.***.***.***] C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/cgi-bin/purple.html is not executable; ensure interpreted scripts have "#!" first line
[Fri Aug 08 09:18:24 2003] [error] [client ***.***.***.***] (9)Bad file descriptor: don't know how to spawn child process: C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/cgi-bin/purple.html

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 2:55 pm (21 years, 5 months ago)

solution 1:- keep is out of cgi-bin directory. all files in cgi-bin are supposed to be as executables.

solution 2:- edit httpd.conf . see the apache manual for details

Junior WebHelper Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 15

good call with the cgi-bin.
i would have never thought of that