Gossamer Forum: Products: Links 2.0: Installation -- Unix: Problem with creating "info" links and numbers of sub/subcategories...

I have installed Links 2.0 .
On this, later I have installed the nonenglish files (from resources area).
After.... on it I have installed the english templates 01 version from www.nicky.net or www.dieblen.de - I am not remember exactly.

Then I modified (translated) all these templates in greek language.

After all these ... all working good , except "info" links...
All these "info" links they are created on wrong url...

For example...
the "info" links , at this page
www.hellenic-schools.gr/pages/New/25-Jan-2002.html
are linked at...
http://www.hellenic-schools.gr/10.html
and
http://www.hellenic-schools.gr/8.html

but not the correct urls (which must be create)
http://www.hellenic-schools.gr/pages/Detailed/10.html
and
http://www.hellenic-schools.gr/pages/Detailed/8.html

THIS PROBLEM IT 'S HAPPEN TOTALLY IN MY LINKS SITE..
Any solution about this?
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2 more questions...

1) Could be create subcategories in subcategories? And.. how?

For example
Cars
Cars/american
Cars/europe
Cars/japan
Cars/american/trucks
Cars/american/vans
Cars/american/limousines
Cars/europe/trucks
Cars/europe/vans
Cars/europe/vans
etc...

2) How many links could be including in every subcategory?

Also, I have read in various articles on this forum, the maximum number for all categories / subcategories is 5.000 links.

After completed this number what happeen?

Thank you.

> Please take a look in the links.cfg and set the $db_root_path
> and $db_root_url variables to a suitable variable

(At first... I am a newbie Blush

)

I didn't found any of them in links.cfg... ($db_root_path or $db_root_url )

Have a look please at my links.cfg...
If you find any wrong, sign it in red (thanks)

# Paths and URL's to Important Stuff

# --------------------------------------------------------

# PATH and URL of Admin CGI directory. No Trailing Slash.

$db_script_path = "/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/hellenic-schools.gr/cgi-bin/links/admin";

$db_dir_url = "http://www.hellenic-schools.gr/cgi-bin/links/admin";

# URL of User CGI directory. No Trailing Slash.

$db_cgi_url = "http://www.hellenic-schools.gr/cgi-bin/links";

# PATH and URL of Pages to be built. No Trailing Slash.

$build_root_path = "/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/hellenic-schools.gr/httpdocs/pages";

$build_root_url = "http://www.hellenic-schools.gr/pages";

# PATH and URL of What's New page. No Trailing slash.

$build_new_path = "$build_root_path/New";

$build_new_url = "$build_root_url/New";

# PATH and URL of What's Cool page. No Trailing slash.

$build_cool_path = "$build_root_path/Cool";

$build_cool_url = "$build_root_url/Cool";

# PATH and URL of What's Rating page. No Trailing slash.

$build_ratings_path = "$build_root_path/Ratings";

$build_ratings_url = "$build_root_url/Ratings";

# Database Options

# --------------------------------------------------------

# You really need to use flock(). However if your system doesn't support it (Win95),

# then turn this off at your own risk!

$db_use_flock = 1;

# Use Pragma: no-cache to stop browsers from caching output? (0 = cache, 1 = nocache)

$db_nocache = 0;

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

$db_iis = 0;

# Field number of category in category.db

$db_main_category = 1;

# Referers -- which hosts are allowed to add to your database.

@db_referers = ();

# Email Options

# --------------------------------------------------------

# NOTE: Be sure to edit the text of the message. It can be found

# in the templates directory: email-add.txt, email-del.txt and

# email-mod.txt respectively.

# Set only ONE of either $db_mail_path which should go to a

# mail program like sendmail, or $db_smtp_server which will use

# a SMTP server. Do not set both at once!

# PATH of sendmail. # SMTP Server

$db_mail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; $db_smtp_server = '';

# Email address of the administrator. BE SURE TO SET!

$db_admin_email = 'webmaster@hellenic-schools.gr';

# Notify visitors automatically when their links are validated?

$db_email_add = 1;

# Notify visitors automatically when their links are modified?

$db_email_modify = 1;

# Log all outgoing messages? Put the full path to a logfile and make sure it

# exists and is writeable (chmod 666 -rw-rw-rw-). This logfile can get pretty

# big!

$db_mailer_log = '';

# Build Options

# --------------------------------------------------------

# Setting for popular cutoff, can either be a percent (i.e. top 3%), or

# a fixed value (i.e. top 10). Enter 0.03 or 10 respectively.

$db_popular_cutoff = 0.03; # Top 3%

# Number of days a link is considered New.

$db_new_cutoff = 30; # 30 days old.

# Return search results bolded (1 = yes, 0 = no).

$search_bold = 1;

# The name of an index file.

$build_index = "index.html";

# The extension to use for non index files:

$build_extension = ".html";

# Should your add.cgi automatically select what category the user

# is adding his link into?

$db_single_category = 1;

# Directory Permissions. Do NOT put quotes around it. Set to 0777

# for world writeable. If you put this at 0755, you might need a

# script to remove any directories created as they will be owned

# by the web server or user nobody. Better solution might be to

# run the nph-build routine from the command shell.

$build_dir_per = 0777;

# The script can now break up category pages that have more then x

# number of links in it. It will also create next and previous links

# to help navigate. Set this to 1 if you want to break up pages or 0 if

# you want to have only one page per category.

# Setting this to one, will also break up the What's New pages into

# per day sections (not affected by number of links per page).

$build_span_pages = 1;

# Number of links per page.

$build_links_per_page = 10;

# Detailed View: The script can build a single html page per link. This is

# great if you have a review in your database. To enable, you must set

# the directory where all the pages will be stored, the url to that directory

# and set the enable option.

$build_detailed = 1;

$build_detail_path = "$build_root_path/Detailed";

$build_detail_url = "$build_root_url/Detailed";

# Use Templates: instead of editing site_html.pl, you can edit regular html pages

# encoded with special <%links_tags%>. It's not as flexible as site_html.pl, but it

# may be easier.

$build_use_templates = 1;

# Site Title, the default title to use. You should really spend some time customizing

# the directory though!

$build_site_title = 'Åêðáéäåõôéêüò ÊáôÜëïãïò e-ÐñùôïâÜèìéá';

# Date Routines

# --------------------------------------------------------

# Your date format can be whatever you like, as long as the following

# two functions are defined &date_to_unix and &unix_to_date:

# The default is dd-mmm-yyyy.

sub date_to_unix {

# --------------------------------------------------------

# This routine must take your date format and return the time a la UNIX time().

# Some things to be careful about..

# timelocal does not like to be in array context, don't do my($time) = timelocal (..)

# int your values just in case to remove spaces, etc.

# catch the fatal error timelocal will generate if you have a bad date..

# don't forget that the month is indexed from 0!

#

my $date = shift; my $i;

my %months = map { $_ => $i++ } qw!Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec!;

my ($day, $mon, $year) = split(/-/, $date);

exists $months{$mon} or return undef;

$day = int($day); $year = $year - 1900;

require Time::Local;

my $time = 0;

eval {

$time = &Time::Local::timelocal(0,0,0, $day, $months{$mon}, $year);

};

if ($@) { die "invalid date format: $date - parsed as (day: $day, month: $months{$mon}, year: $year). Reason: $@"; }

return $time;

}

sub unix_to_date {

# --------------------------------------------------------

# This routine must take a unix time and return your date format

# A much simpler routine, just make sure your format isn't so complex that

# you can't get it back into unix time.

#

my $time = shift;

my ($sec, $min, $hour, $day, $mon, $year, $dweek, $dyear, $tz) = localtime $time;

my @months = qw!Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec!;

$year = $year + 1900;

return "$day-$months[$mon]-$year";

}

sub long_date {

# --------------------------------------------------------

# This routine is for printing a nicer date format on the what's new page. It should

# take in a date in your current format and return a new one.

my $time = shift;

$time = &date_to_unix ($time);

my ($sec, $min, $hour, $day, $mon, $year, $dweek, $dyear, $tz) = localtime $time;

my @months = qw!Éáíïõáñßïõ Öåâñïõáñßïõ Ìáñôßïõ Áðñéëßïõ ÌáÀïõ Éïõíßïõ Éïõëßïõ Áõãïýóôïõ Óåðôåìâñßïõ Ïêôùâñßïõ Íïåìâñßïõ Äåêåìâñßïõ!;

my @days = qw!ÊõñéáêÞ ÄåõôÝñá Ôñßôç ÔåôÜñôç ÐÝìðôç ÐáñáóêåõÞ ÓÜââáôï!;

$year = $year + 1900;

return "$days[$dweek], $months[$mon] $day $year";

}

# -------------------------------------------------------------

# Extra Paths -- unless you feel the need to rename files, you

# can leave this as is.

# -------------------------------------------------------------

$db_script_url = $db_dir_url . "/admin.cgi"; # Admin script.

$db_header_path = $db_script_path . "/header"; # Place to store header and footers.

$db_footer_path = $db_script_path . "/footer";

$build_search_url = $db_cgi_url . "/search.cgi"; # URL of search script.

$build_add_url = $db_cgi_url . "/add.cgi"; # URL of add script.

$build_modify_url = $db_cgi_url . "/modify.cgi"; # URL of modify script.

$build_jump_url = $db_cgi_url . "/jump.cgi"; # URL of jump script.

$build_email_url = $db_cgi_url . "/subscribe.cgi"; # URL of email update script.

$build_rate_url = $db_cgi_url . "/rate.cgi"; # URL of rate script.

$db_mail_url = $db_dir_url . "/nph-email.cgi"; # URL of admin mass mail script.

$build_css_url = $build_root_url . "/links.css"; # URL to your CSS file.

$db_lib_path = $db_script_path; # PATH of library files.

$db_links_name = "$db_script_path/data/links.db"; # PATH to links database.

$db_category_name = "$db_script_path/data/categories.db"; # PATH to category database.

$db_valid_name = "$db_script_path/data/validate.db"; # PATH to validation database.

$db_modified_name = "$db_script_path/data/modified.db"; # PATH to modification database.

$db_url_name = "$db_script_path/data/url.db"; # PATH to URL lookup database.

$db_email_name = "$db_script_path/data/email.db"; # PATH to email database.

$db_links_id_file_name = "$db_script_path/data/linksid.txt"; # PATH to links counter file.

$db_category_id_file_name = "$db_script_path/data/categoryid.txt"; # PATH to category counter file.

$db_hits_path = "$db_script_path/data/hits"; # PATH to hits directory.

$db_template_path = "$db_script_path/templates"; # PATH to templates.

$db_rates_path = "$db_script_path/data/rates"; # PATH to ratings.

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