PHP doesn't work. What does the intepreter/compiler mean my script is not a regular file?
<p>Okay, I am just trying to get it to work.  I keep getting the following error message:</p>

<p>CGIWrap Error: Execution of this script not permitted</p>

<p>Execution of (exercise5) is not permitted for the following reason:</p>

<p>Script is not a regular file</p>

<p>Server Data:</p>

<pre><code>Server Administrator/Contact: system@nova.umuc.edu 
Server Name: nova.umuc.edu 
Server Port: 80 
Server Protocol: HTTP/1.1 
Virtual Host: nova.umuc.edu 
</code></pre>

<p>Request Data:</p>

<pre><code>User Agent/Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 ( ) 8868058803 system:4.02190 JobsSearchToolbar/1.2 
Request Method: GET 
Remote Address: 209.183.235.178 
Remote Port: 19687 
Extra Path Info: /new2.php 
</code></pre>

<p>It is rather infuriating.  Please see my below simple code.  What am I doing wrong guys??  HELP??!!??</p>

<p>This is my code:</p>

<pre><code>           #!/usr/local/bin/php

           &lt;?php
             print "hello, world"   
           ?&gt;

           &lt;?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8"?&gt;
           &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
           "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;

           &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
           &lt;head&gt;
           &lt;/head&gt;
           &lt;body&gt;
           &lt;/body&gt;
           &lt;/html&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>This is my link:
<a href="http://nova.umuc.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/ct386a28/exercise5/new2.php" rel="nofollow">http://nova.umuc.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/ct386a28/exercise5/new2.php</a></p>

<p>Is it me or is it actually easier to code "stuff" sometimes than to actually configure it? I dunno. . . </p>
