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Hi, I'm curious as to how you know the system page. The install says :

PATH to your admin directory, this is a system path, not a URL! If you get an error message about not finding a file, look at the SCRIPT_FILENAME variable for clues on the proper path! $db_script_path = "/alex/links/cgi-bin/admin";

The main thing is is that, my cgi-bin is not on my computer. I've installed cgi scripts before, so I do know somewhat what I'm doing, I've just never had to use this. Thank you for your time.

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IHO, this instruction is misleading. here is what you should do. get the path to your cgi-bin on your server. If you don't know it, ask your host. It should look something like

Code:
/home/acct3/public_html/cgi-bin";


the URL would then look like



then create your links directory underneath the cgi-bin

that path will look like

Code:
/home/acct3/public_html/cgi-bin/links";


Load your add.cgi, modify.cgi, search.cgi,. etc to the links folder

Create you admin directory under the links folder. and load the db.pl, db_utils.pl, site_html.pl, etc to this folder

and so on...


Gene
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Thank you so much both for all your help.