perl 500 Internal Server Error php include

Question

I am trying to run PHP file in Perl using PHP::Include but browser getting 500 Internal Server Error

Here is my code:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use PHP::Include;
include_php_vars( 'file.php' );
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<H1>Hello World</H1>\n";

Answer 1

test your file.php for compilation errors.

php file.php

while in that folder, test the script you are using

perl scriptname.pl

so that std error will be displayed (instead of the generic 500 error you are seeing when running the script through CGI).

Answer 2

I notice that you are printing your header ( print "Content-type: text/html\\n\\n"; ) after doing the php include. Depending on what is actually in your php script, any non-header output before the header would result in a 500 error.