I installed links about 2 days ago, and it all went hunky dorey, then I went to build all, after I had added a new category, and I suddenly got a 500 error. I reinstalled links, and everything works fine, but it won't let me build anything.

Any ideas?

Create the directory where your links pages are going to be built and chmod it to 777, this worked for me!

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I have done just that, and now the page that gets created is saying "unknown tag:date"

I have no idea what I am doing wrong, I was trying out the Yahoo templates, and wanted to see the snap ones. When I use the standard templates, it works okay, but as soon as I install the Yahoo or Snap ones it goes all wrong - I am reading them through fine and following the instructions - it there a mess up in my download?

Sounds to me like there a problem with some of the template tags in the templates. Ie. tags should go something like <%Date%>

But if edited in things like composer the tags sometimes change

Best bet is to open up the templates with notpad to see what the tags look like. Or you could check them online in admin.

Good Luck!

Glenn

http://mir.spaceports.com/~glennu/

Actually this has been covered before in many Threads regarding the SNAP templates. If you search for Snap Templates in the Links 2.0 forums, you will find information about how to correct tag problems.

Actually <%Date%> is ONLY used in the link.html to pull the value of the Date field defined in the links.def file. <%date%> is a global tag that can be used in all template files. This gets the current date. And there should be the following tag configuration in the site_html_templates.pl file:



Regards,

Eliot Lee

Thanks for all your help.

I have decided though, to stick with the original templates and change them to the way I want them - images here, adverts there and text somewhere else. I was having to do this with the Yahoo templates anyway.

Ian Gunter