premature end of script and exec format error

[Fri Jan 29 20:23:28 2010] [error] [client 23.23.23.23] Premature end of script headers: header.php
[Sat Jan 30 10:22:42 2010] [error] [client 23.23.23.23] (8)Exec format error: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/header.php' failed

how to fix this ? basically a .cgi script loads header.php which contains javascripts and some php stuff.....

i notice .cgi script runs fine but none of the javascripts and php things work.

From serverfault $pageUsers[$entry.posts[0].author].name

• The best anybody can do without more information, since you've given almost none, is guess. Here's mine:

  You've either got a missing semicolon or parenthesis or curly brace somewhere (or some other delimiter or bracketing character) or there are DOS line endings (\r\n) where there should be Unix ones (\n).

  From Dennis Williamson

• Long shot, but try adding

  AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
  

  to your apache configuration file.

  From pulegium

• hi,

  i've two ideas:

  • perhaps you have a permission problem with your php file. make sure it has the right permissions for owner and group.
  • perhaps you are mixing html header and body elements. be sure you are including the php file at the right position.
  From Christian