A lot of 500 errors only on my server?

[M.J.G.]

Greetings,

First, I'd like to say how thankful I am for this opensource project. It's a great boon to anyone that allows their members "File Manager" type access to accounts, or whatnot.

I am, however, having problems with 500 internal server errors with my scripts. Apparently, I'm the only one getting them. I'm running a fresh install of Web-FTP 1.3.3 at http://www.redrival.com/cgi-bin/webftp/1.3.3.fresh/web-ftp.cgi, if anyone cares to check it out. The header/footer templates was added later, but the problems are still the same.

I've talked to Anthony about this, though email, but neither of us can figure it out.

Any ideas? And is anyone else experiencing these problems(or have experienced it)?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Farewell...

[Edd Flammer]

Im my writing of CGI's I have found that when you get a 500 error you can usually find the error message in the web server log. If you get an error that just says the script failed you can get more detail by using the CGI::Carp mod. by addding the line
use CGI:Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
this will cause the script to show the errors directly to the web client. If you do not have the CGI CARP mod you can get it from CPAN. I would only use this for debugging though and comment out the line before using it in a production enviroment

Also you will want to check the basics like permissions etc.As always your log files are key to tracking down this type of problem.
Good luck