[Koha-devel] Premature end of script headers

Fri Sep 14 08:07:28 CEST 2007

Hi all,

Directly related to our discussions about error handling, I am in a fix.
I have installed a new instance of Koha/2.0.0 (don't ask!) and get the following
error at the OPAC login URL, e.g.

http://HOSTNAME/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl

500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR

So I look in the opac error_log:

==> log/opac-error_log <==
[Fri Sep 14 15:58:59 2007] [error] [client 10.11.12.8] Premature end of script headers: opac-main.pl

Hrmmm .... now what? Ah yes, let's try that script from the shell:

1. set PERL5LIB as required
2. run the script:

# perl  opac/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl
Set-Cookie: sessionID=; path=/
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:03:58 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>

etc.etc.etc.

So this script runs fine in the shell but not in Apache. And in Apache, the
error is so severe I see no error message.

I retried after adding use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); to the script,
to no avail.

I also repeated this experiment using the about.pl, since that script is so simple.
Same results: shell 1 apache 0

Anyone have any clues?

I am using my knowledge of Koha/2.2.9 to guide me so perhaps Koha/2.0.0 needs
a slightly different configuration in Apache?!?!

cheers
rickw

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