From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 06:24:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA25678 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 06:24:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nildp2.arme.cornell.edu (NILDP2.ARME.CORNELL.EDU [132.236.38.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA25673 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 06:24:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (anl1@localhost) by nildp2.arme.cornell.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA13305; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 09:23:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 09:23:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Leonard Reply-To: Andrew Leonard To: Dean Shannon cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 500 Internal Server Error In-Reply-To: <19970901095415.21992.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Dean Shannon wrote: > It seems however when we or > visitors are accessing CGI pearl scripts we get a '500 Internal Server > Error'. And we dont know how to fix it. This is hard to answer without seeing the source of your CGIs, which you may or may not want to share. What does the error log (generally at logs/error_log) tell you? Often this gives you enough to start debugging if you haven't checked there already. If you find some particularly troublesome issues, why don't you try asking on comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi? Also, have you checked out the Perl CGI Programming FAQ at http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/perl-cgi-faq.html yet? > Does anyone know how to configure the server to receive a high volume of > traffic - I would be very grateful. The apache group has a web page that answers just that question for BSD systems. It should come with the source and be at: htdocs/manual/misc/perf-bsd44.html Good luck! /andy