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@ -3,3 +3,10 @@ Hey, trying to get ikiwiki working on my account on a shared webserver. Actually
My first thought was that this is a Perl CGI and I would need to change the shebang to point to the unusual location of Perl on this server, it's at /usr/pkg/bin/perl. But when I looked at ikiwiki.cgi I found it was a binary file. My first thought was that this is a Perl CGI and I would need to change the shebang to point to the unusual location of Perl on this server, it's at /usr/pkg/bin/perl. But when I looked at ikiwiki.cgi I found it was a binary file.
Why is it a binary? And what can I do about this error? Why is it a binary? And what can I do about this error?
> It's a binary because it's SUID, so that it has permission to write to the ikiwiki repository. See [[security]], under 'suid wrappers', for more on that.
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> As to why you get 'premature end of script headers', that suggests there is a problem running
> the script (and there is output occurring before the HTTP headers are printed). Do you have access
> to the webserver logs for your host? They might contain some clues. Are you sure that the webserver
> is setup for CGI properly? -- [[Jon]]