Friday, January 14, 2005
I'm ready to run screaming towards the hills
I'm attempting to debug the shopping cart from hell. I finally got rid of the warnings, and the script is generating the following:
Set-Cookie: shopper_id=91548; path=/;
Content-type: text/html
<HTML>…
But Apache still
doesnt' like it. I poke around and fine a test.pl script:
#!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello world\n";
Okay. I can build on this, adding stuff to see what Apache might be
complaing about. I run this script from the command line and get “:
bad interpreter: No such file or directory”.
Excuse me?
# which perl /usr/bin/perl # more test.pl #!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello world\n";
Huh?
I write my own version of this:
#!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello world\n";
And it worked.
Okay, probably some invisible character in test.pl that's
giving the perl interpreter fits. Delete #!/usr/bin/perl and
retype it.
: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
Much mucking around later (and remember, this is a side trek from what
I'm supposed to be doing—debugging some comercial perl script) I find out
that not only is test.pl in the Microsoft text format,
but that the version of vi (vi!) I'm using
is “smart” enough to deal with the Microsoft text format and keep the
file in that format!
XXXX this, I'm going home.
