Greetings all.

This is the error message in full that I get when trying to do a "build all"

Step: Updating New and Popular Records and rebuilding URL database

Pages built on 30-Jan-2000 at 03:50:19
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Backing up database . . .
Backing up links, category and email database (File::Copy) ...

CGI ERROR
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Error Message : Unable to copy links backup. Reason: Permission denied
Script Location : /WWW/htdocs/hauntworld/cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
Perl Version : 5.00404

Form Variables
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staggered : 1

Environment Variables
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DOCUMENT_ROOT : /www/htdocs/hauntworld
GATEWAY_INTERFACE : CGI/1.1
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_HOST : hauntworld.com
HTTP_REFERER : http://hauntworld.com/cgi-hauntworld/links/admin/admin.cgi?display=navigation
HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Win98; U)
PATH : /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:.
QUERY_STRING : staggered=1
REMOTE_ADDR : 209.214.0.38
REMOTE_HOST : host-209-214-0-38.mia.bellsouth.net
REMOTE_PORT : 1032
REQUEST_METHOD : GET
REQUEST_URI : /cgi-hauntworld/links/admin/nph-build.cgi?staggered=1
SCRIPT_FILENAME : /WWW/htdocs/hauntworld/cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
SCRIPT_NAME : /cgi-hauntworld/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
SERVER_ADMIN : webmaster@hauntworld.com
SERVER_NAME : www.hauntworld.com
SERVER_PORT : 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL : HTTP/1.0
SERVER_SOFTWARE : Apache 1.3.6 Skyport Version

I've searched this forum, checked and rechecked permissions on all files and dirs, checked and rechecked paths and urls and I'm at a loss to find the error. The script also hasn't built all categories.

What may I try next?

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Hauntingly Yours,
Frightmistress

Ok, gang!

I went back to the files and rechecked permissions again. I added the category dirs by hand and set permissions to 777. I then chmoded the nph-build.cgi to 000 and back to 755. I then tried the build all command and got an error on the index.count file. I went to that file and set the permission to 666("The Devil made me do it")(sorry, couldn't resist.)

When I finished with the index.count file I tried the build all command again and it WORKED!!!

Thanks again for a wonderful forum.

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Hauntingly Yours,
Frightmistress

I have the same problem, but I don't seem to get what she is doing, anyone help??

error message as below
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Backing up database . . .
Backing up links, category and email database (File::Copy) ...

CGI ERROR
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Error Message : Unable to copy links backup. Reason: Permission denied
Script Location : nph-build.cgi
Perl Version : 5.00404

Change the permission of the links.db.bak file to 666 and the links.db file to 666.

Regards,

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Eliot Lee
Anthro TECH,L.L.C
www.anthrotech.com
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