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+Hey, trying to get ikiwiki working on my account on a shared webserver. Actually installing ikiwiki on the server is phase 2. For now I'm running the latest ikiwiki (from source) locally, compiling the output with the ikiwiki command, then rsyncing the output dir up to the server. This works for the static HTML files, but the CGI file doesn't work, the server redirects to an error page. The error log on the server says "Premature end of script headers: /path/to/ikiwiki.cgi"
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+My first thought was that this is a Perl CGI and I would need to change the shebang to point to the unusual location of Perl on this server, it's at /usr/pkg/bin/perl. But when I looked at ikiwiki.cgi I found it was a binary file.
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+Why is it a binary? And what can I do about this error?
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+> It's a binary because it's SUID, so that it has permission to write to the ikiwiki repository. See [[security]], under 'suid wrappers', for more on that.
+> 
+> As to why you get 'premature end of script headers', that suggests there is a problem running
+> the script (and there is output occurring before the HTTP headers are printed). Do you have access
+> to the webserver logs for your host? They might contain some clues. Are you sure that the webserver
+> is setup for CGI properly? -- [[Jon]]
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+Hello. Got ikiwiki running and I'm planning to convert my personal Mediawiki wiki to ikiwiki so I can take offline copies around. If anyone has an old copy of the instructions, or any advice on where to start I'd be glad to hear it. Otherwise I'm just going to chronicle my journey on the page.--[[users/Chadius]]