Simple Cgi Not Working

[supermatt22]

Hi all,

 

I recently moved my website to totalchoicehosting.

I had a cgi script working at my old site, so I moved all of the files into the matching folders here on the new server, and it returns with an internal server error 500.

It is just a cgi script to process a web form. On the old server, the form was submitted to: cgi-bin/test.cgi.

It worked fine there.

Do I have to do something different here on this server?

I've also tried the path: www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/test.cgi - no luck.

Please help me out, I had a guy originally set this up for me and I don't know much about web hosts or scripts.

Thanks for any advise.

 

matt

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the forums Matt

As long as the cgi script is not a variation of form mail, which is dissabled,

check on the permissions to see if it is allowed to execute.

Use ftp or your cpanel to change permissions as the first step to see if it helps.

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums Matt

 

Did you upload the cgi file in ASCII mode versus Binary? Are the permissions set to 755 to allow the script to be executed as Don says.

 

If the answer to both is YES, please open a ticket with the help desk and ask them to take a look.