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Article:		Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X: Part 2
Subject:		Internal Server Error
Date:		2002-02-03 13:36:58
From:		morbus
Response to: Internal Server Error
That's a new one to me. I know what the error message means ("bad header"), but not where that "bootstap_look_up" is coming from. There's another CGI script within that same directory called "printenv". Can you run that one at all? Does it give you the same error message? If you edit the test-cgi script, do you see anything in there about bootstrap_look_up?

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• Internal Server Error
  2002-02-19 18:03:22  pbates [View]
  
  
  I too get this error. Printenv runs fine. I don't see anything about "bootstrap_look_up" in the test-cgi file. Here is the text of the test-cgi file:
  
  Thanks.
  Pete Bates
  
  #!/bin/sh
  
  # disable filename globbing
  set -f
  
  echo Content-type: text/plain
  echo
  
  echo CGI/1.0 test script report:
  echo
  
  echo argc is $#. argv is "$*".
  echo
  
  echo SERVER_SOFTWARE = $SERVER_SOFTWARE
  echo SERVER_NAME = $SERVER_NAME
  echo GATEWAY_INTERFACE = $GATEWAY_INTERFACE
  echo SERVER_PROTOCOL = $SERVER_PROTOCOL
  echo SERVER_PORT = $SERVER_PORT
  echo REQUEST_METHOD = $REQUEST_METHOD
  echo HTTP_ACCEPT = "$HTTP_ACCEPT"
  echo PATH_INFO = "$PATH_INFO"
  echo PATH_TRANSLATED = "$PATH_TRANSLATED"
  echo SCRIPT_NAME = "$SCRIPT_NAME"
  echo QUERY_STRING = "$QUERY_STRING"
  echo REMOTE_HOST = $REMOTE_HOST
  echo REMOTE_ADDR = $REMOTE_ADDR
  echo REMOTE_USER = $REMOTE_USER
  echo AUTH_TYPE = $AUTH_TYPE
  echo CONTENT_TYPE = $CONTENT_TYPE
  echo CONTENT_LENGTH = $CONTENT_LENGTH
• Internal Server Error
  2002-03-03 07:20:56  philocon [View]
  
  
  Same problem, same error messages, printenv works fine ...
  
  Everything worked fine from the end of 2001 up to now. And now this!
  
  
• Internal Server Error
  2002-03-03 14:50:55  philocon [View]
  
  
  Problem "solved".
  
  I took a look at System Preferences' Network panel . Strange things must have been going on there. My IP address was 555.555.555.555 etc etc. So I simply restarted my machine, and everything worked fine again, except for this: In the window's title bar, it still says: 500 Internal Server Error.
  
  Although I don't understand these things very well, I very much enjoy the articles about Web-Serving.
  
  
• Internal Server Error
  2002-04-03 15:46:52  danastasi [View]
  
  
  Your problem seems to have been solved only because you restarted your machine. But, it may crop up again. I just replied to someone else's post about this, so here it is...
  
  That error will only occur if you start apache while logged in to the terminal. Sometimes when starting a daemon from the terminal, OS X will "forget" who started it and/or where. This will happen with daemons other than Apache, too. I've had the same problem with MySQL.
  
  One solution is to make sure that the Apache daemon is being launched on startup, not from the Terminal.