Apache error when executing Python cgi

Question

Hi I have wrote a script for a webpage in python. However when I run it I seem to get this error

/usr/bin/env: python\r: No such file or directory
Premature end of script headers: users.cgi

I'm not sure what is causing it, so far I have:

• A Shebang which is #!/usr/bin/env python
• I also have other scripts that execute fine on the same server in the folder.
• I have no syntax errors in the code (I've used IDLE to check)
• The file also has 755 permissions and is owned by www-data

Could someone help me or point me in the right direction. I can't work out what is going wrong. There is very little in the apache error log. Your help will be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

You've uploaded the file with DOS/Windows line endings. UNIX script executables have to be saved with UNIX line endings.