plz help

[panic--]

500 Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, 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.

could someone tell me how to fix that?

[sde]

sounds like permission related cgi problems. ?

perhaps you should post more specific info relating to what type of script you are running and what it is supposed to do.

then maybe what web server you are using?

[panic--]

trying to get cgi-bin guestbook working
when i try to post something i get the error:

500 Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, 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 server is running apache

[revolution]

i believe that comes from misconfigured pl files or that the script cant find some kind of global file or the pathways arent absolute when they need to be or the other way around. Id check and make sure everything is configured right and in the right place. Its been awhile since ive messed with cgi/perl scripts so correct me if i wrong.

[jeffro]

Have you checked the Apache error logs? That is where the error will be, a 500 error just means something went wrong, it's impossible to tell what exactly went wrong.

Try:

tail /apache/logs/error_log

Or where ever the Apache log is and see what is says, it will have the error that is being thown there.

jeffro