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ViewVC cgi script doesn't work in web root

Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:58 pm
by Ambush Commander
I've been attempting to install ViewVC, and things are mostly functional. The installation is accessible from http://hp.jpsband.org/v/viewvc.cgi/

Notice, however, how there is that /v/ in the URL. This is a strange hack to fix a bug that I haven't been able to figure out, and which I hope to resolve now.

ViewVC's install directory contains bin/cgi/, which contains CGI script stubs which you can copy elsewhere. If I copy these to the webroot/v, the scripts work, but copying them directly to webroot results in a 500 Internal Server Error. The error logs say "Premature End of Script Headers" from viewvc.cgi. Moving the scripts to the subdirectory fixes the problem.

Any insights?