Debian, Apache, plus CGI execute problem

[Jeff Goeke-Smith]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu
> [mailto:linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu]On Behalf Of Nick Lewis
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 8:46 PM
> To: Ben Pfaff
> Cc: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> Subject: Re: Debian, Apache, plus CGI execute problem
>
>
> On 15 Oct 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> >Nick Lewis <lewis@cscw.msu.edu> writes:
> >
> >> [Sun Oct 15 22:20:22 2000] [error] (8)Exec format error: exec of
> >> /home/www/mail/test.php3 failed
> >
> >Apache is trying to execute the PHP3 file in the same way that it
> >would a CGI script, essentially as if "/home/www/mail/test.php3"
> >were typed at the shell command prompt, and this operation is
> >failing.  Is this what it should be doing?  If not, do you have
> >the PHP module properly configured?
>
> When I run the script (or a perl script that I am trying to
> execute for
> that matter) from the shell, it outputs the correct
> information

Hmmm, that seems rather non-typical for a php file.  You could be right on
the mark, but generally, php scripts won't do the right thing being directly
executed.  Hence it doesn't suprsise me that "exec of
/home/www/mail/test.php3 failed"  Are you absolutely certain that this is
how it is supposed to run?

Anyway, hope you can find the problem.

--Jeff