What's going on here? I received this error after trying to change the look of my Links 2.0 to match my site. I screwed around w/ the HTML files some but I came to realize that it designs if off of the "CSS" file--am I right?

Anyway, is there a way to fix this?

Take care!


Links Manager: Building Pages
Building Pages
Pages built on 4-Mar-1999 at 02:21:41
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Backing up database . . .
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Done.

Building URL Index . . .
Done.

Updating New and Popular Records . . .
What's New Cutoff: 14 days
Popular Cutoff: 2 hits

CGI ERROR
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Error Message : Error building! Links database is 0 bytes!
Script Location : nph-build.cgi
Perl Version : 5.00404

Form Variables
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Environment Variables
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DOCUMENT_ROOT : /www/musclestang
GATEWAY_INTERFACE : CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT : */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us
HTTP_CONNECTION : Keep-Alive
HTTP_HOST : www.musclestang.com
HTTP_REFERER : http://www.musclestang.com/cgi-bin/links/admin/admin.cgi?display=navigation
HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0b2; Windows 98)
PATH : /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
QUERY_STRING :
REMOTE_ADDR : 208.226.46.51
REMOTE_HOST : 51ppp9.gulftel.com
REMOTE_PORT : 1561
REQUEST_METHOD : GET
SCRIPT_FILENAME : /www/musclestang/cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
SCRIPT_NAME : /cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
SERVER_ADMIN : webmaster@musclestang.com
SERVER_NAME : www.musclestang.com
SERVER_PORT : 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL : HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SOFTWARE : Apache/1.3.4 (Unix) FrontPage/3.0.4.2 PHP/3.0.6




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Bubba from Bama

You must have at least one link added to links.db in order for Links to build the pages.

And, yes, you are correct. The css file will override, for the most part, your html. You can get around that by deleting all references to $css and $dtd in the scripts.

Hey Bobsie!

Thank you for your advice. I figured it out finally after toying w/ it last night some :-)

So you are saying to delete all the entries in the scripts that have the characters you mentioned above? Do you mind telling me exactly what scripts, or is it all of them? Just the .cgi files? I really don't want to start deleting when I'm not totally positive :-)

If you don't mind shoot me an email to avoid forum clutter unless you deem it's not clutter.

Take care and God bless,

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Bubba from Bama

If you are not using templates, you will find the references to both $dtd and $css in site_html.pl in the Globals section. In addition, there are many <$dtd> and <$css> lines in that script.

If you are using templates, the references appear in almost all of the template files as <%css%> and <%dtd%>. Just delete them (including any surrounding < > symbols).

Bobsie,

Thank you for the *quick* reply. I appreciate it :-) They really need to make an FAQ for this stuff, LoL! Anyway, I use Frontpage98 (don't blast me hehe so does Mike Raburn w/ www.stangnet.com) and I would like to modify all the template html files. Basically this is very easy to do w/ Frontpage.

What I'm getting to is that I should do this as you suggested then:

<< If you are using templates, the references appear in almost all of the template files as <%css%> and <%dtd%>. Just delete them (including any surrounding < > symbols). >>

Right?

God bless,


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Bubba from Bama

Right on!