I've installed links 2.0 and it was working fine. My ISP's hard drive died and they put in a new one. Now when I try to build I get "unable to open what's new page" "reason: permission denied". I've changed all the permissions of the files and directories to 777 but I still get the same error. I thought their might be an ownership problem. In telnet I went "ls -l New" and I showed up as the owner of every file (including New/index.html) except for 31-Oct-2000.html. The owner of this file is "nobody." Does anyone think that this is the problem?

Anytime you build pages/directories via HTTP (web browser), the ownership of them transferred to NOBODY. This is normal. Did you by chance try building BOTH via telnet and HTTP???? If so, that is your problem. Stick with one method or the other...or you will come against permission problems.

SOLUTION: Delete ALL your files/directories AND then build your directory via telnet to maintain the correct permissions. Then continue building via telnet.

Regards,

Eliot Lee

Thank you for that. I never used Telnet to build any files or directories but god only knows what my ISP did when they were trying to recover.

The solution was to delete all the files and directories in the pages directory and then do a build. It now works fine.

Jason McCrea

You're welcome.

Regards,

Eliot Lee