config/3028: 500 internal server error when executing a cgi

[Donny Drummonds <do...@quickturn.com>]

>Number:         3028
>Category:       config
>Synopsis:       500 internal server error when executing a cgi
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 18 07:50:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     donnyd@quickturn.com
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3
>Environment:
Linux Red Hat 4.2
gcc 2.7.2
Linux mgb 2.0.30 #1 Wed Jun 4 15:02:33 EDT 1997 i686 unknown
>Description:
Can not execute cgi scripts

access.conf

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin>
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI Includes
</Directory>

httpd.access

ServerType standalone
Port 80
HostnameLookups off
User nobody
Group #-1
ServerAdmin donnyd@quickturn.com 
ServerRoot /usr/local/apache
ErrorLog logs/error_log
LogLevel warn
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
CustomLog logs/access_log common
PidFile logs/httpd.pid
ScoreBoardFile logs/apache_runtime_status
ServerName mgb.speedsim
UseCanonicalName on
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
StartServers 5
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 30

srm.conf: alnguages and Icons stripped out

DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/htdocs
UserDir public_html
DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi
FancyIndexing on
DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.gif
ReadmeName README
HeaderName HEADER
IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS
AccessFileName .htaccess
TypesConfig conf/mime.types
DefaultType text/plain
AddEncoding x-compress Z
AddEncoding x-gzip gz
LanguagePriority en fr de
Alias /icons/ /usr/local/apache/icons/
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/
AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
AddHandler imap-file map
BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive
BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0

>How-To-Repeat:
http://mgb/cgi-bin/time.cgi

time.cgi

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

echo "Content-type: text/html"
echo " "
echo " "
date
>Fix:

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