Hi, a friend of mine pointed me to xampp and at first everything was going great. Then I restarted my computer and when I tried to run my scripts again I was greeted with this error message:
Server error!
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.
Error message:
Cannot open: Invalid argument at C:/xampp/cgi-bin/loginscript.pl line 15. , <--- Here I am opening a .txt file in the same directory
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 500
localhost
4/30/2009 8:39:17 AM
Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i PHP/5.2.9 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0
The server log just tells me the exact same thing. The weird part is though on my desktop at home when I reinstall xampp the scripts will work fine. However, I'm am using my friend's laptop so I could get my project (that's due today before 4PM EST) done at the library and then show it to my teacher. Unfortunately my teacher is clueless about these matters and this laptop is really my only medium for showing my work.
The only things similar between the laptop and my desktop is that they have HTML-kit installed, and they are both running Windows XP SP3. There are not logs in event viewer, and apache is using port 80 without interruption.
From my observations it appears like xampp "forgets" the perl interpreter after a reboot and almost all calls made using perl syntax are either ignored or throw an exception. Any and all help is greatly appreciated!