Re: cannot get simple catalog working - Help Plz

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

>******    message to minivend-users from Shao Zhang <shao@shaoz.dhs.org>
>******
>
>Hi,
>	I installed minivend, everything went fine except I cannot get the
>	simple catalog working. Please help me.
>
>	Go to the simple homepage is fine: http://www.shaoz.dhs.org/simple
>
>	when click enter the store, got the following error:
>
>	Internal Server Error
>
>	The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and
>was unable to complete your request.
>
>	Please contact the server administrator, shao@linuxfreak.com 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.
>
>	The error.log of apache shows:
>
>	[Wed Aug 11 11:44:39 1999] [error] [client 203.63.219.44] Premature
>end of script headers: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/simple
>	[Wed Aug 11 11:44:39 1999] [error] [client 203.63.219.44] Premature
>end of script headers: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/simple
>
>
>	The cgi file simple in /usr/lib/cgi-bin is a binary, so I cannot
>debug it...
>
>	Please help me... Thanks.
>
>Shao.
>
>
>
>Additional Info:
>
>/home/shao/catalogs/simple/catalog.cfg:
>
>Variable    SERVER_NAME     shao.penguinpowered.com
>Variable    CGI_URL         http://shao.penguinpowered.com/cgi-bin/simple
>Variable    SECURE_SERVER   http://shao.penguinpowered.com
>Variable    ORDERS_TO       shao
>Variable    IMAGE_DIR       /simple/images
>Variable    DOCROOT         /var/www
>Variable    SAMPLEHTML      /var/www/simple
>Variable    SAMPLEURL       http://shao.penguinpowered.com/simple
>
>/usr/local/mvend/error.log:
>203.63.219.44 - - [11/August/1999:11:44:39 +1000] -
>/cgi-bin/simple/noframes Undefined catalog: /cgi-bin/simple
>
>/usr/local/mvend/minivend.cfg:
>Catalog       simple /home/shao/././/catalogs/simple
>http://shao.penguinpowered.com/cgi-bin/simple /simple
>
>
>
>--
>____________________________________________________________________________
>Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1  ___ _               _____
>Department of Communications    / __| |_  __ _ ___  |_  / |_  __ _ _ _  __ _
>University of New South Wales   \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \  / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` |
>Sydney, Australia               |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, |
>Email: shao@cia.com.au                                                  |___/
>_____________________________________________________________________________

Shao -

You might want to double-check the file permissions on your CGI	binary,
they should be at least 755.  Did you get any ambiguous messages or error
messages during install?  Otherwise post your OS and Perl type/version info
and maybe a more experienced person on this list can help you

- Ed L.

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