Premature end of script headers

[Anon]

commenting out the doc_root worked for me as well.

thanks

tom

[Anon]

I was experiencing the same problem when using php3 with apache.
The problem was due to a misplaced php3.ini file. This file needs to be put in a directory which is part of the PATH-Variable. Otherwise the php-processor is not able to find its configuration and exits. Apache is responding with "premature end of script headers".

[Anon]

The Apache Group has an on-line documentation with several solutions to this problem.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ-F.html#premature-script-headers

[Anon]

After reading this thread, I took a look at PHP's log file. PHP was reporting for me:

PHP Fatal error: Unable to open (path/file.php) in Unknown on line 0

So at least in my case, the issue was Apache correctly invoking PHP, but PHP could not locate the script to execute. Looks like one of several problems: permissions, path, missing script.

[Anon]

I had the same problem while I was running a perl script.

I got the 500 error, and found this in my apacha logfile:
[Fri Mar 1 01:55:15 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of /home/celeb/www/cgi-bin/oms.pl failed
[Fri Mar 1 01:55:15 2002] [error] [client 10.0.0.150] Premature end of script headers: /home/celeb/www/cgi-bin/oms.pl

The strangest thing is, when I added any directive in my oms.pl file, everything did worked again. When I just used plain #!/usr/bin/perl in my file, I got the 500 error back.

What was the problem? I develop my perl script under Windows 4 Kids (XP) in UltraEdit and write them to my linux box via Samba in the local directory. What happens under Windows when you Copy & Paste a file, it converts the Original!! file to DOS-format ($d$a / 0x13 0x10) When I converted the file format back to Unix , the 500 error was gone 🙂

[Anon]

According to apache's manual, the "Action" directive syntax takes 'cgi-script' as its second argument, not an absolute path as '/usr/local/bin/php'.

Try this after copying /usr/local/bin/php to /usr/local/php-bin/php:

ScriptAlias /php-bin/ /usr/local/php-bin/
Action application/x-httpd-php /php-bin/php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

One problem with this scenario is you can no longer use PATH_INFO (e.g. http://server/file.php/foo/bar). See http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/5/2002/1/0/7661735/

[Anon]

thanks Vivek, you've cleared up a long-standing problem for me with your tip.

[budyen]

I found another possible solution to the problem. If you're using a Windows box to edit your scripts before ftp'ing to your server you may be unintentially adding Dos CR's to the end of your file. For the answer for how to get rid of this (providing you can telnet or ssh into your server) is here:
http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/cork/2002-March/002810.html

In case that URL doesn't work (I don't want to take credit for this), just
1. vim yourscript.cgi <return>
2. :set notextmode <return>
3. :wq <return>
This solved my problems.

[Anon]

Hi all,

In windows98, I installed Apache & PHP & MySQL. When I try to run a test PHP file, it is giving http500 error. In error log file, it is showing like "Premature end of script header".

If anybody knows, pls let me clear.

Thanks & Regards
Selvakumar

No one special wrote:

Include the path to the apache directory in your path-specification residing in autoexec.bat or simply copy ApacheCore.dll and Win9xConHook.dll from the Apache directory to c:\windows\system.

Apparently Perl, PHP and the likes don't know where to find aforementioned files when Apache invokes them (Perl, PHP, etc) to process a script (and please, let's not dwell on the fact why Apache simply generates a 'premature end of script headers' error instead of the enlightening 'file not found', shall we).

Hopefully, this will be the end of at least one of the many (I'm sure) inconveniences regarding the usage of php (and the likes) and apache...

[Anon]

Yeah. Even though my PHP script claims to define the content_type autmoatically the added code was all it took to end the sorrow that was Error 500. Thanks for the off the wall guess.

Regards,

Jeff Tebo
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[Anon]

i've installed apache + php4 on XP. i've got this err msg, because i incorrectly wrote loadmodule_php in http.conf (before command "ClearModuleList"). when i rewrite loadmodule_php command behind command "ClearModuleList", everything goes!

[Anon]

perfect... fixed my problem too, but why?

[Anon]

I have been scratching my head over this dumb problem, until now. I have been searching the web for a month and just doing my web programming with php because of this problem. Thanks for posting you solution!!

[Anon]

I used a widely available tutorial on installing Apache, PHP and MySql on a windows machine.

If you get this error, make sure that the doc_root in php.ini matches DocumentRoot in httpd.conf

[Anon]

Yes. That has worked for me.

Thankyou alot. Today will be a good one!