Hi - I have installed links 2 and got the admin up and running added categories, links validated checked links etc - I built the pages everything seemed to go well except that the categories I created don't show up on the home page (index.html). I have read through a lot of the forum and know this symptom has been described before. The main cause is due to tags being on the same line - I checked this in the template and this was not the case but I did the enhanced template.pm mod anyway. Just in case but to no effect. The rest seems to work except whats cool and top rated but I am assuming this is because I haven't added any thing to cool or rated anything

Not sure why this might occur but here is some other info that may help you work out what I have screwed up(this section is a bit long and may not be of interest except those who can help so don't bother unless you really want to - my apologies for such a long post but I hope it will make for a shorter thread)

from links.cfg

# PATH and URL of Admin CGI directory. No Trailing Slash.
$db_script_path = "/web/space/d01/sec/s43/U0000rTm/cgi-bin/bestlinks/admin";
$db_dir_url = "http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/cgi-bin/bestlinks/admin";

# URL of User CGI directory. No Trailing Slash.
$db_cgi_url = "http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/cgi-bin/bestlinks";

# PATH and URL of Pages to be built. No Trailing Slash.
$build_root_path = "/web/space/d01/sec/s43/U0000rTm/www/bestlinks";
$build_root_url = "http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/bestlinks";

# PATH and URL of What's New page. No Trailing slash.
$build_new_path = "/web/space/d01/sec/s43/U0000rTm/www/bestlinks";
$build_new_url = "http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/bestlinks";

# PATH and URL of What's Cool page. No Trailing slash.
$build_cool_path = "/web/space/d01/sec/s43/U0000rTm/www/bestlinks";
$build_cool_url = "http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/bestlinks";

# PATH and URL of What's Rating page. No Trailing slash.
$build_ratings_path = /web/space/d01/sec/s43/U0000rTm/www/bestlinks";
$build_ratings_url = "http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/bestlinks";


results from the build
Building Home Pages <http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/bestlinks/index.html> . . . Subcategories: 3 Total Links: 5 Opening page: /web/space/d01/sec/s43/U0000rTm/www/bestlinks/index.html Closing page. Done Building What's New <http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/bestlinks/index.html> Page . . . New Links for 10-Aug-2000 <http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/bestlinks/10-Aug-2000.html>: 2 New Links for 9-Aug-2000 <http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/bestlinks/9-Aug-2000.html>: 3 Total New Links: 5 Done Building What's Cool <http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/bestlinks/index.html> Page . . . Cool Links: 0 Done Building Top Rated <http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/bestlinks/index.html> Page . . . Vote Range: .. Rate Range: .. Done Building Category Pages . . . Building Category: Test_Sites_1 <http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/bestlinks/Test_Sites_1/> Subcategories: 0 Links: 2 Directory: /web/space/d01/sec/s43/U0000rTm/www/bestlinks/Test_Sites_1 Filename : /web/space/d01/sec/s43/U0000rTm/www/bestlinks/Test_Sites_1/index.html Building Category: Test_Sites_2 <http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/bestlinks/Test_Sites_2/> Subcategories: 0 Links: 1 Directory: /web/space/d01/sec/s43/U0000rTm/www/bestlinks/Test_Sites_2 Filename : /web/space/d01/sec/s43/U0000rTm/www/bestlinks/Test_Sites_2/index.html Building Category: Test_Sites_3 <http://bestphotos.netfirms.com/bestlinks/Test_Sites_3/> Subcategories: 0 Links: 2 Directory: /web/space/d01/sec/s43/U0000rTm/www/bestlinks/Test_Sites_3 Filename : /web/space/d01/sec/s43/U0000rTm/www/bestlinks/Test_Sites_3/index.html Done Pages Built (1 s)!

Ok, had a look at the page online and realised that you've been building your what's new, what's cool and everything pretty much to the SAME directory.

You need to create and specify a
/Bestlinks/New
/Bestlinks/Cool
etc...
directory otherwise you'll end up (as you have) with all the index files being overwritten by each other.

That should solve your problem.

Regards,

Martin

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