Perl nightmare

Well, it's more of a perl annoyance, really. Not an actual perl nightmare. I've had those, and this isn't quite that bad.

A few days ago I decided to add a photoblog to my site. Seemed like a not-too-difficult objective to achieve. I should have known better.

I figured the only real issue I'd have would be figuring out enough CSS to be able to come up with a decent layout. Of course, I haven't even gotten to that point yet.

Where I appear to have gone astray is in trying to allow Movable Type to create the thumbnails automatically, using Imagemagick. MovableType has hooks into the ImageMagick perl module, which is installed on my server, and can (allegedly) generate thumbnails of a specified size upon upload.

Only I can't get the damn thing to work!!!! I've tried switching to NetPBM (per the documentation), and get the same error:

Premature end of script headers: /path/to/mt/cgi-bin/mt.cgi

I've looked the mt.cgi script, and cannot figure out why this is not working. The workaround is to tack a step onto the end of the Photoshop action I use to generate my web images, and have it make thumbnails too. Then, I just upload both the thumbnail and the full-size image.

But that's a pain. I want the thing to work as it's supposed to, and make the thumbnails for me. Grrrrrrrrr.