If your CGI/Perl scripts return a 500 Internal Server Error when
accessing them via a web page, verify that your script is under your
/cgi-bin/ directory, and that the file and directory have 755
permissions. This looks like "rwxr-xr-x" in some programs. ...
On most servers, PHP scripts are set to not log NOTICE errors, or
possibly more, to your site's error_log file.
If you are trying to debug your code, the following statements should
be added to the top of your PHP files so they'll display the errors to
...
When setting up scripts on the website that send email, the path to
sendmail may need to be adjusted in the script's settings to
successfully send email.
Please attempt to use the following path in your scripts in the
following order until one works...
Some PHP applications will have a setting in their configuration to
use "persistent connections". This setting should be off for hosted
accounts. Persistent connections are often misunderstood and therefore
end up being misused in ways that consume all...
Magic Quotes GPC and Runtime are not enabled on a server-wide basis on
hosting accounts because it can break applications that don't expect
it to be on and that don't test for it being on.
You can turn magic quotes runtime on for your site on an entire s...
If you have installed a PHP application you downloaded, etc. and you
get errors such as the following:
Notice: Undefined variable: VARIABLE NAME
It is most likely PHP's register globals being turned off causing the
problem.
This problem can usual...
If you need to run a CGI program in your normal html area of your
site, instead of the dedicated /cgi-bin/ directory for scripts, you'll
need to do the following.
Add the following text to a file:
Options +ExecCGI
Then upload that text file to th...
When uploading CGI script to the site, you may need to adjust the
path to Perl on the first line of the script. For scripts, Perl is
located in /usr/bin/perl
Example first line:
#!/usr/bin/perl