Title: major CGI problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# major CGI problem

 *  [kyleo92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kyleo92/)
 * (@kyleo92)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-cgi-problem/)
 * Hey all, I’m working on a wordpress 3.0 install and am getting a lot of “CGI 
   Error: The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set
   of HTTP headers.”
 * I get this when trying to view:
 * – author pages
    – category pages – RSS feeds – pages
 * I can pretty just use wp-admin and see the homepage and posts.
 * What I’ve tried:
 * – doing the wp-db.php change ([http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/924003?srch=cgi+error](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/924003?srch=cgi+error))
   –
   disable all plugins – change themes to WP’s Twenty-Ten – reinstall WordPress 
   using auto-reinstaller – replace files in wp-admin, wp-includes and the main 
   directory of wp – clearing browser’s chache, cookies, etc.
 * I’m 100% stumped.

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 *  Thread Starter [kyleo92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kyleo92/)
 * (@kyleo92)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-cgi-problem/#post-1605446)
 * Server settings:
 * Operating System : WINNT (32 Bit)
    Server : Microsoft-IIS/6.0 Memory usage : 
   19.51 MByte MYSQL Version : 5.0.67-log PHP Version : 5.2.5 PHP Safe Mode : Off
   PHP Allow URL fopen : On PHP Memory Limit : 256M PHP Max Upload Size : 2M PHP
   Max Post Size : 8M PCRE Backtracking Limit : 100000 PHP Max Script Execute Time:
   30s PHP Exif support : No PHP IPTC support : Yes PHP XML support : Yes
 *  Thread Starter [kyleo92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kyleo92/)
 * (@kyleo92)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-cgi-problem/#post-1605447)
 * I’ve also tried changing permalinks. For some reason, all three of the “pretty
   permalinks” options have index.php in theme…is that causing the problem?
 *  Thread Starter [kyleo92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kyleo92/)
 * (@kyleo92)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-cgi-problem/#post-1605449)
 * I’ve tried to change the permalinks to not include index.php in the custom structure,
   then it breaks everything but the homepage…
 *  Thread Starter [kyleo92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kyleo92/)
 * (@kyleo92)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-cgi-problem/#post-1605451)
 * I also just upgraded to WordPress 3.0.1 that was just released…nothing changed
   in regards to my problem…
 *  Thread Starter [kyleo92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kyleo92/)
 * (@kyleo92)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-cgi-problem/#post-1605509)
 * Does anyone have an explanation of why this is happening??????

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [kyleo92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kyleo92/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-cgi-problem/#post-1605509)
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