Why am I getting CGI errors in my script?

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CGI errors can occur for any number of reasons. Here are five of the most common.

• The line #!/usr/local/bin/perl must appear as the first line in the script.
• The script has not been made executable. Issue this FTP command...

  chmod 755 filename

  Some FTP clients require that the CHMOD command be preceded by the SITE command and/or the QUOTE command. See "What is FTP and how do I use it?" for more information about FTP.

• Your script may have carriage returns in it (^M or ASCII 13). They need to be stripped or replaced by linefeeds (^J or ASCII 10). Try uploading the file in text mode, rather than in binary mode.
• The filename must end in .cgi, .pl or .sh.
• The Content-type statement must be present in scripts that print to standard out.

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