(apologies to ES: i hit "reply to author" entirely by accident.) ES wrote: > Le 21/5/2005, "greyfade / gmail.com" <greyfade / gmail.com> a ñÄrit: > >this is a problem that's been driving me nuts ever since i first tried > >it. > > > >i can create simple, minimal scripts in Python, Perl, and PHP that run > >flawlessly on the first try with minimal effort, both on my local > >testing system (Apache 2.0.52 and Ruby 1.8.2) and on the server my > >personal site is hosted on (Apache 1.3.33 and unknown version of Ruby - > >i'm trying to find out). but no matter what i try, i simply can not > >get even the most minimal ruby script to function: > > > >#!/usr/bin/env ruby > > > >print "Content-type: text/html\n\n" > >print "<html><body>Hello World!</body></html>\n" > > > >it runs perfectly fine at the console, no warnings, no errors, no > >problems. but as a CGI script, it's another story: i get an error 500 > >and the cryptic (and seemingly common) "Premature end of script > >headers". no other warnings or errors. if i simply change "ruby" to > >"python" on the shebang line, the above script magically works with no > >other effort on my part. > > This, actually, goes to the HTTP spec. Try this: > > #!/bin/env/ ruby > print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n" > print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n" > print "<html><body>Hello World!</body></html>\n" > does not work. see quoted below. > >i'm going insane because nothing, AFAICT, is wrong. the server is > >correctly set-up, permissions are correct, ownership is correct, ruby > >is installed and working, yet NOTHING seems to coax it into working. > >it repeatedly reports this incredibly uninformative "Premature end of > >script headers" error. > > > >is there something i could have missed? a possible misconfiguration? > >or does ruby just hate me? > > E > > -- > template<typename duck> > void quack(duck& d) { d.quack(); }