PHP4/IIS/CGI Errors

Anon

Hello,

I am running PHP 4 off of IIS 5.0 and have successfully completed several projects in this dev environment. However, my current project has brought out a very annoying error. I am getting this:

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

It happens all around the site... The frequency is at best random, it could happen on any given script at any time... Also, if I reload the page, the script executes just fine about 95% of the time...

The only things that I can possibly think that could be causing this are set_cookies() or header redirects ->HTTP Headers.

Has anyone else encountered this? What is the cause? How do I fix it?

Thanks a lot...
-John

Anon

I am using IIS 5.0 also and use php and perl in my webserver. When I execute my script with .pl ext there is an error " CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers" and I look a line as follow :

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

and i give a sign # and there is no error again.

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

But, when the ext is .cgi the error show up. Then I look the code again and give uncomment the line, and the error dissapear.

Regards,

tinuviel

John, could we possibly see one of your scripts that you know for sure has errored out (only need to paste up to the point you do your first output to the page)? This might help us narrow it down..
Tin

Anon

I found the same problem (got the same error message) after installation of PHP4. Now, trying to trace down the reason for the problem I almost completely emptied the *.PHP file, only the things required for a blank HTML page remained, the problem still exists.
Maybe it is an installation problem, as the Stupid Installation Wizard I used for installation confuses everything and produces an inoperable system.
Previously, I had no such problems with PHP 3 on an other machine: I read the instructions, made the manual settings and everything worked fine.
After two days of fruitless efforts I would really like to COMPLETELY get rid of this mess. Does anyone know where the Wise UNinstallation Wizard can be found? I found no such thing in the installation directory and none in the windows control panel. Shall I remove it manually? Which registry entries are concerned (in addition to the ones I know: Script map and Classes_Root)?

Anon

I have had this problem with a script that just has <? echo "Hello World"; ?> in it... I think it is a PHP bug..

Jay

Anon

When you try to run a CGI app that does not physically exists in the place you specified, you get this error.

Maybe you misspelled some pathnames ?