CGI scripts are failing

[Richard Gaskin]

J. Landman Gay wrote:

> My hosting provider moved my server to a new machine yesterday and all
> my LiveCode CGI scripts immediately started throwing unspecified 500
> server errors. These scripts have been working well for years until they
> changed machines on me.
>
> I had them run ldd and all libraries appear to be present:
>
>          libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00ca0000)
>          libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00101000)
>          libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00ca6000)
>          libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00de0000)
>          libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00b6e000)
>          /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00b54000)
>
> They don't know LiveCode and can't help much more. Can anyone think of
> anything that would cause this? I've had a couple of other people tell
> me they couldn't get the cgi engine to work with their host either, and
> we never did figure out the reason.
>
> These scripts deal with Paypal payments and track customer sales, so it
> is fairly urgent I get them working.

What file system are they using?

If you can ssh into the machine, try:

  df -T



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