.php exec error in server log

[Anon]

ok i'm still not sure if i have my setting right but when i try to execute a .php file from the web browser i get this in the web server error log for netscape 3.6:

[13/Dec/2000:16:38:52] catastrophe (11687): trying to GET /test.php, cgieng_start_output reports: could not fork new process (exec() failure [Exec format error])

any ideas on how this can be fixed? i did have the line #!dir/php in before but it said no input file. so i took that out of the top of the file and then i got this error. everything works from the command line though. thanks

[Anon]

I probably don't know enough about the problem your having, but I'll give it a shot anyway...

So you run it from command line and it runs OK? And have a #!path/to/interpreter in the script? Yeah, sounds reasonable, but only for command line use.

When called thru the web server, the file must not have the hashbang (#!) and interpreter in the beginning, and must not have the exec tag set.

-jani