Hello - I recently installed Links2 and was able to get to the Admin Page. As stated in the readme.txt file I created a catagory and then a link within that catagory, but when I click the build all link I received the following error:

The Document contained no data.
Try again later, or contact the server's administrator.

Can anyone help me?

THanks,

Thanks - Yes the problem is with the nph-build.cgi. I will try the faq and see if the information there can help.

Allyn

The information should help.

Regards,

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The problem is with your nph-build.cgi file, right? Your server may not allow non parsed headers to execute. There is a FAQ n the Resource Center that explains how to fix this problem.

Regards,

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www.anthrotech.com
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Building Pages

Pages built on 8-Feb-2000 at 20:59:08
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Backing up database . . .
Backup exists for today.. Skipping
Done.

Building URL Index . . .
Done.

Updating New and Popular Records . . .
What's New Cutoff: 14 days
Popular Cutoff: 2 hits
Updating record: 3, marking as new.
Updating record: 4, marking as new.
Updating record: 5, marking as new.
Updating record: 6, marking as new.
Updating record: 7, marking as new.
Done.

Updating ratings ..
Done.

Loading Category Information . . .
Done.

Gathering Category and Link information . . .
Done

Building Home Pages . . .
Subcategories: 2
Total Links: 5
Opening page: /links/Pages/index.html

Hi Eliot,

Thanks for the previous assistance! The information contained in the FAQ helped and now the build function works....to a point. When builing I get the following error. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Allyn


CGI ERROR
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Error Message : unable to open home page: /links/Pages/index.html. Reason: Read-only file system
Script Location : /cgi/links/admin/build.cgi
Perl Version : 5.00404

You have to change the Pages directory to 777 (rwxrwxrwx) and the same for the new, cool, and ratings directories under the Pages directory.

Regards,

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Eliot,

I have "changed the Pages directory to 777 (rwxrwxrwx) and the same for the new, cool, and ratings directories under the Pages directory" and I still receive the same error.

ALlyn

Try changing the index.html file to 777 and also the /links/ directory to 777.

Regards,

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Hmmm...that didn't work either. Do you think deleting the directory and then recreating it would work?

Allyn

Wouldn't hurt. But it really should not make a difference since all you are doing is overwriting files.

Regards,

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Eliot,

Ok, this is what I've done:

I deinstalled everything and started from scratch. Everything is working including some things that did not before, however I still get the same error message. I've checked the permissions on everything and it all looks fine. Here is the output from my attempted build:

Building Pages

Pages built on 9-Feb-2000 at 10:43:06
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Backing up database . . .
Backup exists for today.. Skipping
Done.

Building URL Index . . .
Done.

Updating New and Popular Records . . .
What's New Cutoff: 14 days
Popular Cutoff: 2 hits
Updating record: 3, marking as new.
Updating record: 4, marking as new.
Done.

Updating ratings ..
Done.

Loading Category Information . . .
Done.

Gathering Category and Link information . . .
Done

Building Home Pages . . .
Subcategories: 1
Total Links: 2
Opening page: /links/pages/index.shtml

CGI ERROR
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Error Message : unable to open home page: /links/pages/index.shtml. Reason: Read-only file system
Script Location : /cgi/links/admin/build.cgi
Perl Version : 5.00404

Form Variables
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Environment Variables
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CB_CODE : 2
CB_SLOT : 0
DOCUMENT_ROOT : /web
GATEWAY_INTERFACE : CGI/1.1
HOME : /
HTTP_ACCEPT : image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET : iso-8859-1,*,utf-8
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en
HTTP_CONNECTION : Keep-Alive
HTTP_COOKIE : pass=Jasmine; voted=yes
HTTP_HOST : www.ajedmonds.com
HTTP_PRAGMA : no-cache
HTTP_REFERER : http://www.ajedmonds.com/cgi/links/admin/admin.cgi?display=navigation
HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/4.7 [en]C-AOLNSCP (Win98; U)
LOCALDOMAIN : ajedmonds.com
LOGNAME : cgiuser
MANPATH : /usr/man
PATH : /bin:/usr/vde/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/cvbin
PWD : /cgi/links/admin
QUERY_STRING :
REMOTE_ADDR : 63.198.63.66
REMOTE_HOST : adsl-63-198-63-66.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net
REQUEST_METHOD : GET
SCRIPT_NAME : /cgi/links/admin/build.cgi
SERVER_ADMIN : www@www.ajedmonds.com
SERVER_NAME : www.ajedmonds.com
SERVER_PORT : 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL : HTTP/1.0
SERVER_SOFTWARE : ConcentricHost-Ashurbanipal/1.7 (Pacific Bell Internet Services)
SHELL : /usr/local/bin/perl
TZ : EST5EDT
USER : cgiuser
VDE_CB_GRENT : pacbell
VDE_CB_PROD_NAME : Pacific Bell Internet Services
VDE_CB_SIGNUP_PATH : PACBELL
VDE_CB_TLD : hosting.pacbell.net
VDE_DOMAIN : ajedmonds.com
VDE_INBOUND : vrun:httpd
VDE_LOGNAME : cgiuser@ajedmonds.com
VDE_PGRPID : 16790
VDE_VERSION : 1.6c (mutex)
VDE_ZONE : /cgi/links/admin/

Any suggestions on how to correct this problem will be greatfully appreciated.

Thanks,

Allyn

The error is stating that you HAVE NOT changed the permissions appropriately to that directory. Again, change the permissions of the /pages/ directory to 777 (rwxrwxrwx).

Regards,

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Eliot Lee
Anthro TECH,L.L.C
www.anthrotech.com
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Ok, I understand that. However, there is only so many times that I can make sure that the file permissions on /pages directory is 777.

Obviously there is something else wrong. Is there anyone else out there that can try to assist me?

Thanks,

Allyn
p.s. Just a little frustrated....don't take this personally.

Figured it out on my own. THis was what was going on.

/links/pages/ directory should have been /web/links/pages/

Go figure!

Thanks for all your help.

Allyn

Hi,

I have the same problem when clicking on build all. I get the message:

in Netscape:
The Document contained no data.
Try again later, or contact the server's administrator.

In MSIE:The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings.

I have read this thread and followed the instructions in FAQ but it doesn't get any better. Have any idea what else could be the problem?

Thanks

Hello!

You have NT hosting.
At links.cfg search string :

# Use IIS headers? Set this to 1 if your web server needs the full headers (HTTP/1.0 etc.)
$db_iis = 0;

change to 1

upload and try to rebuild links.




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