Title: CGI Error With Pages Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # CGI Error With Pages * [slamb0513](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slamb0513/) * (@slamb0513) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/) * I have pages on my site that once I published were given the URLs of [http://www.twomomsdaycare.com/?p=2](http://www.twomomsdaycare.com/?p=2) for example. When this link is clicked, all it does is redirect back to the home page. When I use permalinks, the blog posts themselves work fine, but the pages throw the following CGI Error. * CGI Error The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. * Can someone help me with this? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 30 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/page/2/?output_format=md) * Thread Starter [slamb0513](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slamb0513/) * (@slamb0513) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613032) * Anyone? When I don’t use permalinks, I get URLs created that look like the following: * [http://www.twomomsdaycare.com/?page_id=2](http://www.twomomsdaycare.com/?page_id=2) * All that link does is take you back to the home page. * If I modify the URL myself in the address bar to add index.php before the ? so it reads [http://www.twomomsdaycare.com/index.php?page_id=2](http://www.twomomsdaycare.com/index.php?page_id=2) then everything links fine. Does anyone know what file and where in the code these links are generated so I can physically add the index.php before the ? * Any help would be really appreciated. * Thread Starter [slamb0513](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slamb0513/) * (@slamb0513) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613043) * Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone? * [drmiketemp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmiketemp/) * (@drmiketemp) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613044) * Actually the question to ask is why CGI is coming into play. WP is a php script, not cgi. * Best bet would be to get with your host and see if it’s something on their end. * [omnivore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omnivore/) * (@omnivore) * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613132) * I’ve never had this problem before. But it’s cropped up constantly since I installed WordPress version 2.3.1. It’s not a php problem, but it causes some serious problems on IIS apparently. * [lionking06](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lionking06/) * (@lionking06) * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613147) * === replace code in your wp-includes/wp-db.php with the code below… * This fix is for 2.3 and 2.3.1 * Feb 5, 2008 [moderated code placed at [http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/893007](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/893007)] * [BrianF](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianf/) * (@brianf) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613161) * FYI, this just worked for me to get WP 2.3.2 working too. Host is a Windows shop. * [rahulrocx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rahulrocx/) * (@rahulrocx) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613162) * This worked perfectly 4 me thnk u * [ghenghiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghenghiz/) * (@ghenghiz) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613163) * This fix the error but… it makes me to re-install wordpress! * is there any other way? * [mrbim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrbim/) * (@mrbim) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613164) * Indeed this works … * I am running: -Windows 2008 Standard edition (full) -PHP 5.2.5 with FastCGI - MySQL 5.0.45 -WP 2.3.2 * I don’t see why WordPress has difficulties installing. I have installed Joomla and Invision Power Board without any problems. * Thanks for the code! * [martin6](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martin6/) * (@martin6) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613168) * Hi, * I am running the similar problem here. When I go to the url that suggested above“ [http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/893007”](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/893007”);, it returns blank page. * Can anyone let me know where to modify the codes? * Thanks * Martin * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613169) * This link works for me: [http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/893007](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/893007) * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613170) * Connecting the dots… [http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5951](http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5951) * [martin6](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martin6/) * (@martin6) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613171) * Hi, * Thanks for the reply. I am still unable to see anything on that link: [http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/893007](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/893007) which returns blank page. * I used both firefox and IE but see the same result. * Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated. * Regards * Martin * [swhitley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swhitley/) * (@swhitley) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613173) * I ran into the same CGI problem. I’ve been running multiple versions and instances of WordPress with the same host for two years without issue, but the install failed for 2.3.3. * I updated wp-db.php with the code above and it worked. * [stefanrusek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefanrusek/) * (@stefanrusek) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/#post-613174) * I have a wordpress 2.3.3 install running on IIS. When I enable permalinks with dates and article names, then page, tags, and categories give the CGI error. If I choose the permalink option /index.php/archives/%post_id%, then all pages give the CGI error. The above fix seems to fix the problem when you get a CGI error during installation, but it has no effect on already working installs that fail when the permalink options are changed. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 30 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘CGI Error With Pages’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [cgi error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cgi-error/) * [page error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/page-error/) * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 30 replies * 25 participants * Last reply from: [jayglo83](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jayglo83/) * Last activity: [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-with-pages/page/2/#post-613226) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics