I've been trying to set up the DB man cgi on my website, its hosted on a windows 2003 server and I keep getting the DBMan encountered an internal error. Please enable debugging to view.

I have enabled debugging and get nothing, I've changed the file locking to 0 and renamed the db.cgi to db.pl and still get the error, I can't change the file permissions as its windows server. What else can I do to make it work?

I'm happy to post the ftp access details privately if someone wants to help

Thanks
Lee

Exactly what changes have you made to the files? You should only have set up the URL to the cgi-bin and changed the file locking. And changing the name of db.cgi is fine.

Since the html.pl and db.cgi file should be unchanged at this point, if there's a problem, it should be in the default.cfg file. If you can't figure it out, attach the default.cfg file to a message here.

(Sorry it took me so long to respond.)


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This thread may also provide some help:

DBMan in a Windows environment - Checklist

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/gforum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_threaded&post=108916

Unoffical DBMan FAQ

http://creativecomputingweb.com/dbman/index.shtml/

Hi thanks for getting back intouch I've attached the file for you.

Thanks
Lee

Try changing




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sorry didn't work, just getting the same error. will it work on the win 2003 server I can't get much support from my host at all really. I've never had problems setting it up before on unix servers just works....can't understand it myself, will it matter about the file permissions? as I can't change this on 2003.

Other thing is does it need the full url to the perl i.e insted of the /usr/bin/perl...... have www.server.com/usr/bin/perl?

and thanks for your help! :)
Lee

I really don't know. When the program was written, the latest version of Windows was Win95, so there could be things in later versions that conflict with DBMan. I've never dealt with DBMan on a Windows server of any version, so all I can go by is what other people have written about.


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