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Simple Question I hope
1st of all. I'd like to thank all of you 'experts' for answering previous question that I and probably many othe newbies had. You all are incrediably good!!

Now, my question. My ISP, Interland (FYI, an ISP I would recommend only to my worst enemy!!!!) screwed up our account for telnet accesss. In order to correct this, they had to move it to another server. This caused a change in our IP address, which caused LinkSQlL to puuk (sorry, technical word). I need to change the IP addresses in LinqsSQL so that everythink will work again. My question is, any idea on what file or files has this info?

I am currently hunting for this info and appreciate any and/or all assistance.

Thanks, as usual

Howard J. Brubaker

PS To Alex If he reads this, Is there a formal or informal procedure for suggeastions to LinksSql? I have one regarding the browse - put an option to expand all. No bigie, just a common sense one. Thanks.



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The IP address shouldn't be there. You should be using a "url".

What is probably the problem is the "path" to the links libraries. This is set in the "Setup" options area, _BUT_ all the .cgi files would have to be updated as well.

It's probably easier to re-install the program, but overwriting the "code" while _not_ overwriting the templates and configs.

Then, you'd need to edit the paths in the set up, but all the .cgi files will have been properly updated.

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Pugdog,

Thank you for your quick reply. I think I was a little unclear. I can't run the admin script, invalid password. It is looking at the old ip/url and using the new admin file. Therefore, I'm trying to find out the file name that all of the info is in so I can change it manually. I've looked in the CGI scripts and none of them have a hard coded ip/url so it is probably in a library file somewhere.

FYI, I didn't install it GT did so they put the ip instead of a url name. Any ideas on which would be better and why?

Thanks again.

hjb



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Getting closer.

In config.pm, GT writes "Sets up our config variables -- if you are looking to hand edit variables
# the data is in Links::ConfigData, but you shouldn't have to do this, really!"

The info is in the ConfigData file, I've changed all of them to the new addresses/locations and now at least it finds the admin file, but the id/pw is invalid.

Any ideas on where these are?

hjb

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If you had to manually edit the ConfigData.pm, you'll probably have to
edit each of the .cgi programs and change the "use lib /.../.../admin"

The passwords are stored in the .htaccess file for the admin itself, and
the database access is in .../admin/defs/database.def



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Got it,

Thanks for the help Pugdog, I only had to change about 14 cgi files, plus using the old id/pw. I had changed the password file to reflect the new part but that screwed something up so i went back to the original and it works correctly.

I'm actually starting to understand this a little.

hjb