500 Internal Server Error

Hi Everyone,
I am a newbie to use directadmin. and i find a problem for use the cgi script. after i upload a cgi script sample index.cgi to the cgi-bin directory , i got a cgi execution error

500 Internal Server Error

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


Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


What problems wolud it happpen?

Thank you for your help

Terry Chen

yuh said:

Hi Everyone,
I am a newbie to use directadmin. and i find a problem for use the cgi script. after i upload a cgi script sample index.cgi to the cgi-bin directory , i got a cgi execution error

500 Internal Server Error

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Make sure you chmod your script to have execute permission - that's the most frequent problem.
If that doesn't help, check the error log file.