cgi-bin problems - error 500

[sde]

i have the most simple perl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print 'testing 1 2 3 4 5';

chmod a+x index.cgi

the owner of the cgi-bin is user:user

the permissions of the cgi-bin is: 751 ( that is default i think )

public_html is owned by: user:apache

the permission os public_html are: 750

when i try to run the script via a web browser, i get an error 500.

i have tried to add this to the .htaccess file in the cgi-bin but it did not work:

Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

this is what the browser says:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

i can run the script from the cl and it works fine.

what else can i look for?
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[sde]

well besides adding the content type to my bad test script, .. i came across this link: http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=7

when using the ~user/cgi-bin path, you need to create the .htaccess file to run perl scripts.
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[jmstacey]

Did you also look at this?
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=6

What did your suexec log say?

 

[sde]

i'm sorry, i guess my post wasn't clear. it is solved. the problems was the fact that the cgi-bin was being accessed from /~user/cgi-bin instead of the domain/cgi-bin.

thanks for the response.
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