Internal Server Error

I get the dreaded Internal Server Error each time I try to run my perl/cgi scripts. The apache error log shows the following error:

[Wed Apr 18 13:52:37 2001] [error] (8)Exec format error: exec of /var/www/cgi-bin/test.cgi failed
[Wed Apr 18 13:52:37 2001] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] malformed header from script. Bad header=Launching... /usr/lib/apache-s: /var/www/cgi-bin/test.cgi

I'm not sure why I'm getting the "malformed header from script" error, because I have included: print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; in my script.

Can anyone help with this?

Peter

ps...I'm using apache-ssl but for now ssl has been disabled...does this make any difference?

It might be helpful to actually see your cgi script.

Thanks for your response OneChance, but I've solved my problem. It was actually a really silly error that I kept missing...the first line of my cgi script was:

!#/usr/bin/perl

instead of

#!/usr/bin/perl

...imagine how frustrated I was to discover this error after spending two hours trying to figure out what the problem was!

Thanks again,
Peter

We've all been through that at least once.