"End of script output before headers" error in Apache

Question

Apache on Windows gives me the following error when I try to access my Perl script:

Server error!  The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.  Error message:  End of script output before headers: sample.pl  If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.  Error 500  localhost Apache/2.4.4 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.1e PHP/5.5.3 

this is my sample script

#!"C:\xampp\perl\bin\perl.exe" print "Hello World"; 

but not working on browser

Answer 1

Check file permissions.

I had exactly the same error on a Linux machine with the wrong permissions set.

chmod 755 myfile.pl

solved the problem.