I'm a major newbie. I'm frustrated. and now I think I'm a dumbass on top of it all.

I've installed latest ver of fileman. Don't have icons. Doesn't function very well either (not much to be exact). I've read a million forums - can't figure out what's wrong.

I'm on Apache servers. I do not have my images in /cgi-bin. They are in /httpdocs/images. So, that shouldn't be problem (i don't think?). The private directory is in cgi-bin. Is that a problem? Should it be in httpdocs/ ??? I'm thinking it should not be in cgi-bin...but of course when I've tried to delete it...I can't delete the .htaccess file. How do I get rid of the .htaccess? I guess I need to telnet to change the name and then delete...but I'm such a dumbass, I can't telnet - I keep getting a 500 error.

btw - I installed from web...not telnet.

Can someone put me out of my misery and give me advice. Obviously, I don't know what I'm doing.

Thanks for your patience.

Hi,

It seems that the html_root_url is wrong. Take a look at ConfigData.pm, make sure everything are right.

TheStone.

B.

I think it's ok. I really feel like the private folder is causing the problems (assuming some of the functionality is located in private). I've tried to reinstall fileman a few times, and now I have a private folder in the cgi-bin and in httpdocs. Even though I think the path is ok (unless you see a problem), I think the program is going to the cgi-bin/private directory .... and maybe that's why it's not working????? That's why I wanted to delete the cgi-bin/private, but I can't get rid of .htaccess. Am I even on the right road here?

Hi,

I just changed 'html_root_url' => 'http://www.dfaengineering.com/httpdocs/images',
TO: 'html_root_url' => 'http://www.dfaengineering.com/images',

It should work now.
btw, I think you should remove config info in your last message.

TheStone.

B.

Thank you. I feel so stupid.

Why is it that I didn't need the httpdocs directory in the path? Is seems like it wouldn't have found it. (not to take up your time, just a general response would be great.) Which private directory is fileman using? cgi-bin/private or httpdocs/private? I'd like to delete the one not being used.

Thanks a ton. And thanks for such a quick response.

Hi,

>>Why is it that I didn't need the httpdocs
The www.dfaengineering.com is mapping to ../httpdocs, so you don't have to put httpdocs in html_root_url.

>>Which private directory is fileman using?
Take a look at ConfigData.pm that will show you which one being used

TheStone.

B.

ok, so my lesson learned is that

1)the url will map to the images file.

2)but the path listed in ConfigData.pm must be exact.

thanks.