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    copied!<p>I am working with a colleague to set up their local environment on a MAC in XAMPP, on windows my vhost looks like the one below.</p> <p>When I access a URL like <a href="http://domain.local/cgi-bin/handler.php" rel="nofollow">http://domain.local/cgi-bin/handler.php</a> the web server processes the PHP correctly but on his we get a 500 server error and this message...</p> <pre><code>The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Error message: Premature end of script headers: </code></pre> <p>We tried changing the name of the cgi-bin folder to something else as I noticed there was another alias in httpd.conf but this had no effect...so it seems to me like the issue is permissions related.</p> <p>We believe the alias is setup ok as accessing <a href="http://domain.local/cgi-bin/filenothere.php" rel="nofollow">http://domain.local/cgi-bin/filenothere.php</a> which doesn't exist throws a 404 as expected, any .html/.pl files fail to execute.</p> <p>The permissions that exist on the cgi-bin folder are...</p> <p>rwxrwxrwx dave staff</p> <p>and is owned by the user and group....</p> <p>dave staff</p> <p>Vhost</p> <pre><code>&lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt; ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com ServerName www.domain.local ServerAlias domain.local ServerAlias api.domain.local # Indexes + Directory Root. DirectoryIndex index.php DocumentRoot E:/home/www/www.domain.co.uk/htdocs/ # CGI Directory ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ E:/home/www/www.domain.co.uk/cgi-bin/ &lt;Location /cgi-bin&gt; Options +ExecCGI &lt;/Location&gt; # Logfiles ErrorLog E:/home/www/www.domain.co.uk/logs/error.log CustomLog E:/home/www/www.domain.co.uk/logs/access.log combined &lt;/VirtualHost&gt; </code></pre> <p>Any idea what is causing this PHP file to not be executed?</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong> Tried adding a header to say that the content is PHP to the start of the PHP file and this now simply outputs the PHP code.</p> <p>It's as if any path specified in as an Alias is accessible but the server doesn't know how to execute the content, this is for HTML as well as PHP</p>
 

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