Gossamer Forum: Products: Gossamer Links: Version 1.x: page.cgi bug... or is it?

Apr 11, 2000, 5:56 PM

jdgamble

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Apr 11, 2000, 5:56 PM

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page.cgi bug... or is it?

I don't know if this is a regular bug, but I just started using page.cgi and I am having trouble with the way it displays the links:

http://www.linkondemand.com/page.cgi

It replaces:
http://www.linkondemand.com/jump.cgi
with:
http://www.linkondemand.com/page.cgi?g=jump.cgi

It also does this with other things like add a page and modify a link etc...

How can I fix this. This is kind of urgent.

Thanks,

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- Jonathan Gamble

www.magicdirectory.com

Apr 11, 2000, 7:11 PM

pugdog

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Apr 11, 2000, 7:11 PM

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Re: page.cgi bug... or is it? In reply to

If you are using page.cgi you need to use the RELATIVE (variable) path names, not hard-coded paths in the templates.

The regular build will work either way, but page.cgi will only work correctly if you use indirection.

Check your templates, make sure you are using:

build_new_url
build_cool_url
build_root_url
build_ratings_url
build_detail_url
db_cgi_url

in the templates.

Apr 11, 2000, 7:35 PM

jdgamble

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Apr 11, 2000, 7:35 PM

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I am using those variables instead of typing them in manually...

Example

Code:
<ul> 
  <li><a class="link" href="<%db_cgi_url%>/jump.cgi?ID=<%ID%>"><%Title%></a> 

    <%if Description%> 
    <span class="descript">- <%Description%></span> 
    <%endif%> 

    <%if isNew%> 
    <small><sup class="new">new</sup></small> 
    <%endif%> 

    <%if isChanged%> 
    <small><sup class="new">update</sup></small> 
    <%endif%> 

    <%if isPopular%> 
    <small><sup class="pop">pop</sup></small> 
    <%endif%> 

    <small class="date">(Added: <%Add_Date%>  Hits: <%Hits%>   Rating: <%Rating%>  
    Votes: <%Votes%> ) <a href="<%db_cgi_url%>/rate.cgi?ID=<%ID%>">Rate It</a></small> 

    <%if isEditor%> 
    <small class="date">| <a href="<%db_cgi_url%>/maintain.cgi?modify_form=1&modify=<%ID%>">Edit</a> 
    | <a href="<%db_cgi_url%>/maintain.cgi?delete_form=1&delete=<%ID%>">Delete</a></small> 
    <%endif%> 
</ul>

I'm thinking that it might have something to do with the cgi files resting in the main directory...

Puzzled,

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- Jonathan Gamble

www.magicdirectory.com

Apr 17, 2000, 8:00 AM

Alex

Administrator (9387 posts)

Apr 17, 2000, 8:00 AM

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page.cgi requires that your html pages be built in a subdirectory, and not off of the root. This was neccessary so that no changes to the tempaltes would be required to switch from dynamic mode to static mode.

Cheers,

Alex