I've tried all I can think of to solve this problem. I have treid to follow the readme file to the exact word... the instalation path seems to change 1/2 way through.. then change back so I'm a little confused.

BTW: This is only my second ever perl install so I know virtually nothing.

I am currently using the free hosting at www.f2s.com.
My site is http://www.findfun.f2s.com
My document root is /web/sites/353/findfun/www.findfun.f2s.com/

I currently have links 2 installed in the following URL
http://www.findfun.f2s.com/cgi-bin/links/

THe admin directory is contained within the links dir ie:
http://www.findfun.f2s.com/cgi-bin/links/admin

Path to sendmail is: /usr/lib/sendmail

I believe I have CHMODed all the required files and dirs.

The top of my links.cfg file...
==========================================================

# Paths and URL's to Important Stuff
# --------------------------------------------------------
# PATH and URL of Admin CGI directory. No Trailing Slash.
$db_script_path = "/web/sites/353/findfun/www.findfun.f2s.com/cgi-bin/links/admin";
$db_dir_url = "http://www.findfun.f2s.com/cgi-bin/links/admin";

# URL of User CGI directory. No Trailing Slash.
$db_cgi_url = "/web/sites/353/findfun/www.findfun.f2s.com/cgi-bin/links";

# PATH and URL of Pages to be built. No Trailing Slash.
$build_root_path = "/web/sites/353/findfun/www.findfun.f2s.com/links/pages";
$build_root_url = "http://www.findfun.f2s.com/links/pages";

# PATH and URL of What's New page. No Trailing slash.
$build_new_path = "$build_root_path/New";
$build_new_url = "$build_root_url/New";

# PATH and URL of What's Cool page. No Trailing slash.
$build_cool_path = "$build_root_path/Cool";
$build_cool_url = "$build_root_url/Cool";

# PATH and URL of What's Rating page. No Trailing slash.
$build_ratings_path = "$build_root_path/Ratings";
$build_ratings_url = "$build_root_url/Ratings";

# Database Options
# --------------------------------------------------------
# You really need to use flock(). However if your system doesn't support it (Win95),
# then turn this off at your own risk!
$db_use_flock = 1;
# Use Pragma: no-cache to stop browsers from caching output? (0 = cache, 1 = nocache)
$db_nocache = 0;
# Use IIS headers? Set this to 1 if your web server needs the full headers (HTTP/1.0 etc.)
$db_iis = 0;
# Field number of category in category.db
$db_main_category = 1;
# Referers -- which hosts are allowed to add to your database.
@db_referers = ();

# Email Options
# --------------------------------------------------------
# NOTE: Be sure to edit the text of the message. It can be found
# in the templates directory: email-add.txt, email-del.txt and
# email-mod.txt respectively.

# Set only ONE of either $db_mail_path which should go to a
# mail program like sendmail, or $db_smtp_server which will use
# a SMTP server. Do not set both at once!

# PATH of sendmail. # SMTP Server
$db_mail_path = '/usr/lib/sendmail'; $db_smtp_server = '';

# Email address of the administrator. BE SURE TO SET!
$db_admin_email = 'findfun@mikejeffs.com';

# Notify visitors automatically when their links are validated?
$db_email_add = 0;
========================================================

If anyone has any suggestions as to why I am getting the 500 error I would be very grateful if they could point it out. If anyone has the time to spare to take a quick look - I enclose my ftp details.

ftp: ftp.findfun.f2s.com
login: findfun
pw: magazine

Many Thanks

MikeJeffs

I beg to differ...I betcha that your ABSOLUTE ROOT directory is actually /web/sites/353/findfun/.

Delete /www.findfun.f2s.com/ from all your *_path variable configurations.

You are mixing RELATIVE and ABSOLUTE PATHS.



Regards,

Eliot Lee

/web/sites/353/findfun/www.findfun.f2s.com/

Thats definatly my root. I know it looks odd... but its just the way that f2s.com give out their free webspace. I got the script working late last night though.

I'd made one of the most stupid mistakes possible... I had the incorrect path to perl. I don't think you can get much dummer than that eh?

THanks for helping!

MikeJeffs

Have you checked that the path to perl is correct in all your Links2 cgi scrpts?

Paul Wilson.
(Dont blame me if I'm wrong!)