Quiz Script?

[Kireihana]

I'm looking for a good personality quiz script. I tried using a perl one but I kept getting the 500 error page. I think its because I chmod it to 755 but my server keeps switching it to 644 >.<

So does anyone who has experience writing quizzes know of a good script?

[shooraijin]

No, the 500 error page is usually generated because the script is bugging out.

Since you seem to have a shell (because you can chmod -- wow, a Unix goddess at 14! I'm impressed ^_^), try this

perl -c scriptname

and see what happens. If it doesn't come up with any errors, try running it directly.

chmod 755 scriptname
./scriptname

(in the directory it's in)

[Mithrandir]

For a fun time, make sure that you're first line (sometimes called the "shebang" line) has a " -w" at the end (no quotes) to tell perl to run in warn mode.

[shooraijin]

That's an awfully strange definition of fun.

[Mithrandir]

Awfull. Strange. Yeah, it's like me a bit.


Did you get any farther, pretty flower?

[Kireihana]

wow, a Unix goddess at 14! I'm impressed ^_^

Hahaha, I am nothing of the sort! I know what chmod is and I know how to do it, but I know nothing beyond that. And my cpanel simply has a button next to the file where you can change the permissions. Or I just chmod through FTP.

Um, ok. The script (quiz.cgi) has to be in the cgi-bin, right? So then the action url for the form is cgi-bin/quiz.cgi?

Oldphilosopher, is this what you meant by the first line of the script?

#!/usr/bin/perl - w

[shooraijin]

Depends on how your site is set up. It may be either /cgi-bin/quiz.cgi (note the preceding slash) or your_url/cgi-bin/quiz.cgi (like ~kireihana/cgi-bin/quiz.cgi).

That's what Phil meant. Actually, you might try taking that (the -w) off (leave the rest of it alone), just in case it's older code that a newer Perl is objecting to.

If you can get a shell, you can test the sanity of the script with perl -c, or you can E-mail or PM it to one of us and we'll check it out for you.

[Kireihana]

Thanks. I think I'll PM you, because I really don't know what I'm doing XD.

[shooraijin]

Okie. Check your PM box for a fantabulous reply.

[Mithrandir]

Total response time, 2 hours and 46 minutes.


You just *can't* get that kinda response time from your ISP.

[shooraijin]

Actually, we're still working on it ... error logging takes 24 hours to enable.

[Kireihana]

[quote="oldphilosopher"]Total response time, 2 hours and 46 minutes.


You just *can't* get that kinda response time from your ISP. ]

Nope, sure can't...

Shooraijin, we WILL prevail! lol

[shooraijin]

Yes ^_^ I'm going to look at it more when I get back to my apartment (still on ER shift).