My "add a resource" returns an error "Internal server error", yet the "added" page is on the admin list to validate correctly. I do not get a confirmation email. Where do I start? thanks Francis
http://www.vina.org/linkmanager/add.cgi

If you have Telnet access try this,
perl -d add.cgi when it says <D1> type this,
&site_html_add_success if you don't have Telnet access look very carfully over sub site_html_add_success { oh ya, if do have that Telnet access when you type &site_html_add_success it will list any error's in that sub, type q to quit,
Thanks
Joey

Even better, start with the FAQ!

http://gossamer-threads.com/scripts/faq/



Cheers,

Alex

More details:
1: I do not have telnet
2: Usually I am guilty of not "RTFM" but I check the faq and all is fine with reguard to the advice given.
3: the advice given in the FAQ ..."If you received the Internal Server Error, yet your validate.db file contains the information you submitted, then you know it is one of problems 2 through 4 above." seems to apply to me but I do not see anything wrong.
4: I did change email addresses and the new email address is a forwarding one... could this be the problem?

save your links.cfg file with a .txt extension and place it somewhere accessable on your site, then point us to the url.

Thanks,

--mark

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Thanks and here is the URL

http://www.vina.org/links.txt

Francis,


Are you saying that the email address you have configured ( $db_admin_email = 'martinf001@hawaii.rr.com'; ) is not valid for your server at vina.org but is the address your mailbox at vina.org sends the mail to?

If this is the case, then that may well be what is causing the problem. Some ISP's block the use of email addresses not configured on their server for outgoing mail in order to prevent unauthorized use. So, you may have to use a vina.org email address in $db_admin_email.

Try setting $db_admin_email to the address you use on vina.org and see if the problem goes away. The mail will still be forwarded to your hawaii.rr.com mailbox.

If it is the hawaii.rr.com mailbox that forwards mail to your vina.org mailbox, then definitely set $db_admin_email to the vina.org address.

I hope this helps.

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[This message has been edited by Bobsie (edited January 08, 1999).]