[htdig] Internal Server Error / Premature end of script headers

[Miko B. <mik...@ya...>]

Hello,

htsearch under the commandline is working fine. But with Apache 1.3.19 
some problems appear:

Internal Server Error with the error.log-entry: "Premature end of script 
headers: /home/www/web4/htdig-cgi-bin/htsearch"

htdig faq 5.13: "This happens when htsearch dies before putting out a 
"Content-Type" header." and
"One increasingly common problem is Apache configurations which expect 
all CGI scripts to be Perl, rather than binary executables or other 
scripts, so they use "perl-handler" rather than "cgi-handler". "

Ok, I check the FAQ:  http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.13 and  
http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.23
So I guess I have a problem with my httpd.conf.

These are the regular entries in my httpd.conf:

<IfModule mod_alias.c>
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/
   <IfModule mod_perl.c>
       ScriptAlias /perl/          "/usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/"
       ScriptAlias /cgi-perl/      "/usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/"
   </IfModule>
    <Directory "/usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin">
        AllowOverride None
        Options None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</IfModule>

<Location /cgi-bin>
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    SetHandler cgi-script
</Location>



These are my entries to solve the problem:

<Directory /home/www/web4/htdig-cgi-bin/>
      SetHandler cgi-script
      AllowOverride None
      Options +ExecCGI
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
</Directory>

<VirtualHost www.xy.com>
   ....
   ScriptAlias /htdig-cgi/ /home/www/web4/htdig-cgi-bin/
   ....
</VirtualHost>


At the server the htsearch (without extension) is placed in directory 
/home/www/web4/htdig-cgi-bin and have the propertiey 755.

The html-file which called the htsearch has the form;
<form method="post" name="htdigsearch" action="/htdig-cgi/htsearch">
....
</form>


Facts:
- htsearch is working from commandline
- ScriptAlias is working - the htsearch in /home/www/web4/htdig-cgi-bin 
is opened with the form

But:
Why I get the internal server error when running the html-form? I have 
SetHandler cgi-script. What is missing?


I don't know, do I have an error in my httpd.conf or do I have another 
problem? perhaps I should run the makefile and the ./configure with 
other parameters, but I think it is running fine under commandline, so I 
don't have to change this setup.

Thank you for any hint,
Miko