couldn't spawn child process

Hi All,

I have Teamsite 6.5 SP2 installed on Win 2K3 with Apache/1.3.31.
The .cgi and .ipl files are placed in the IIS area /httpd/iw-bin.

I invoke http://localhost/iw-bin/test.cgi, which has these lines of code...

#!d:\iw-home/iw-perl/bin/iwperl
use CGI;
my $cgi = new CGI;
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

My Questions...
1) It gives me an Internal Server Error.
2) And d:\iw-home\iw-webd\logs\error.log says "couldn't spawn child process".

Any help is most appreciated...

Thanks

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nipper

Are you certain that the perl is valid ?

run iwperl -c d:\iw-home/httpd/iw-bin/test.cgi

Also, I *think* it needs to be a .ipl instead of a .cgi (though I may be incorrect on that part).

kaalraa

Hi All,

I have Teamsite 6.5 SP2 installed on Win 2K3 with Apache/1.3.31.
The .cgi and .ipl files are placed in the IIS area /httpd/iw-bin.

I invoke http://localhost/iw-bin/test.cgi, which has these lines of code...

#!d:\iw-home/iw-perl/bin/iwperl
use CGI;
my $cgi = new CGI_lite;
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

My Questions...
1) It gives me an Internal Server Error.
2) And d:\iw-home\iw-webd\logs\error.log says "couldn't spawn child process".

Any help is most appreciated...

Thanks

Could you please try to use CGI_lite module? Also check for the iwperl path for the slashes being used, forward or backward.

ISCBorisB

Hi All,

I have Teamsite 6.5 SP2 installed on Win 2K3 with Apache/1.3.31.
The .cgi and .ipl files are placed in the IIS area /httpd/iw-bin.

I invoke http://localhost/iw-bin/test.cgi, which has these lines of code...

#!d:\iw-home/iw-perl/bin/iwperl
use CGI;
my $cgi = new CGI;
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

My Questions...
1) It gives me an Internal Server Error.
2) And d:\iw-home\iw-webd\logs\error.log says "couldn't spawn child process".

Any help is most appreciated...

Thanks

You seem to have an issue with Windows interpreter/script association. Take a look here to see one of the ways to make it work.

Reji Varghese

Thanks for the reply.

when i include the wrapper class, it started working... Smiley Happy

But on our STAGING server, it works absolutely fine even without the wrapper class.

Any thoughts ???

Reji Varghese

Is it important to to use the wrapper class to the custom CGI's ?

Because on some of our servers CGI's even work without the wrapper class.

Thanks in advance...

ISCBorisB

Is it important to to use the wrapper class to the custom CGI's ?

Because on some of our servers CGI's even work without the wrapper class.

Thanks in advance...

IWOV KB Article 1609 (the one I referenced before) illustrates just one of the ways to associate your custom CGI with
the desired interpreter (iwperl in this case). An advantage of the described method is that it's for the lack of better
term *forced* and will work with (almost) any sane Windows Configuration. IWOV recommends this way of CGI association
so if I were you I would do it across my Windows servers and experiment with technique deviations in my spare time.

That said, if you know what you are doing, you can configure TS Server(s) *.ipl/*.cgi File Association in such a manner
that your custom CGIs will work without wrappers. If that's what you meant by *important* than formally speaking it's
*not important*. It is also possible to mess up Windows registry so that no method will work but that's another story.