[users@httpd] 2.044 / htpasswd / CGI problem

["Warhurst, SI (Spencer) " <S....@rl.ac.uk>]

Something a bit weird has started happening since I updated to Apache 2.044.

I have a CGI (Perl) script with a web interface that allows me to password
protect certain directories by setting up the appropriate .htaccess file and
making an entry into the password file.

In the CGI script I use the line like this:

system("$apachebin/htpasswd.exe -b $pwfile $username $password");

Now, this has always worked fine before, but now I get the "Server Error...
Error 500" response and in error.log lines like this:

[date/time] [error] [client IP] Premature end of script headers: pw.cgi,
referer: URL
[date/time] [error] [client IP] Automatically using MD5 format., referer:
URL
[date/time] [error] [client IP] d:/apache2/bin/htpasswd.exe: unable to
create temporary file \/htpasswd.tmp.ZL5eCM, referer: URL

I changed absolutely nothing in the script, all I did was update from Apache
2.043 to 2.044 and I made sure the Apache service (it's a Windows 2000
Server) is logged on with the same account as before.

Any ideas?

Thanks

--
Spencer Warhurst


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