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500 internal server error
Hiya all,

I wonder if you can help me. I have installed links 2.0.2 everything seemed to go fine, telnet uncompressed the files...setup.cgi went all ok, logged into admin that worked.

I built the pages from admin...told me those has been created...checked at http://www.golfguide.co.uk/courses/ and indeed they had been created

The problem I have is that on the build pages, all of the non html pages (add.cgi, modify.cgi etc) are causing 500 internal server error messages.

Did a search on these forums...a few similar posts but nothing quite the same...anyone know what's up?

Many Thanks

Martin

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Why aren't you using 2.04 ??

Check your error logs. It should tell you what the problem is.



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I really don't know I was given this by my employer...taking over the job role of another guy, so I am not really aware of version numbers.

The error log shows

[2001-07-12 08:09:28]: uid: (admin/admin) gid: (admin/admin) cmd: add.cgi
[2001-07-12 08:09:28]: directory is writable by others: (/home/httpd/vhtdocs/sites/golfguide/cgi-bin)


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First, you should really get the 2.04 version, which is the current version, and which has some major improvements.

Second, that really doesn't look like an error log.

The server has two logs (usually) that it keeps. One is the "access.log" which is where all your hit information is stored. The other is the "error.log" where errors -- such as 404, failed scripts, and 500 errors are logged.

That is invaluable for figuring it out. Otherwise, you could guess at the problem for days, and not find it.

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I think that's your suexec log, and it means you need to chmod your cgi-bin dir to 755

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Hi,

I actually work for an ISP...so I checked apache server logs....as Andy pointed out that was indeed the case.

but thanks all the same.