CGI Frustration

[Yennie at aol.com]

Ken,

Can you run the script from the command line?
That is, can you connect via Telnet, ssh, etc, and run something like:
> ./linux test.mc

?

If so, then it probably has something to do with the ISP setup / Apache 
configuration (assuming they use Apache). If not, then it may be your setup.

Some tidbits that *could* help (or at least narrow down the problem):

1) Try putting a full path to the mc engine.
2) Try changing the extension to ".cgi". The ISP configuration could possibly 
only accept cgis with certain extensions.

HTH.
Brian

> OK, I'm finally trying to get MC set up as a CGI. I have an ISP that uses
> Linux, so I DL'ed the linux engine and uploaded it to my cgi-bin folder. I
> set the permissions to 755, and have a simple script called "test.mt" that
> sits in the cgi-bin folder as well, and its permissions are 755. The script
> is this...
> 
> #!linux
> 
> on startup
>  put "Hello World!" into tResponse
>  put "Content-Type: text/HTML" &crlf
>  put "Content-Length:" &(the length of tResponse) &crlf &crlf
>  put tResponse
> end startup
> 
> ... and I keep getting an internal server error 500. I tried exactly the
> same thing on another ISP using BSD (with the exception of the first line
> being "#!mc"), and got the same result. I'm convinced I'm just not calling
> it properly... any ideas?
> 
> Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

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