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Building Problems
I have set all my permissions correctly, but whenever I try to build my pages (for the first time) it gets to the Whats New Page and says that i have used an illegal character but my directory is set to the default-New. Here is my error, and I went down all these messages and didn't find anything, and I did everything the readme. Here is the error that I get all the time.

Building What's New Page . . .
CGI Error:
Message: invalid directory name: /home2/z102316e/www.motorcityhq.com/links/New. Reason: contains illegal characters.

_________Form Variables __________

_________Environment Variables__________
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /home2/z102316e/www.motorcityhq.com
GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT: application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us
HTTP_HOST: www.motorcityhq.com
HTTP_REFERER: http://www.motorcityhq.com/links/admin/nav.htm
HTTP_TE: identity;q=1.0, chunked;q=0.0
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
HTTP_VIA: HTTP/1.1 gvcl1.bc.wave.home.com[1840DF04] (Traffic-Server/2.2 [uSc s f p eN:tUcS i p s ])
PATH: /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
QUERY_STRING:
REMOTE_ADDR: 24.64.223.4
REMOTE_PORT: 22892
REQUEST_METHOD: GET
REQUEST_URI: /links/admin/nph-build.cgi
SCRIPT_FILENAME: /home2/z102316e/www.motorcityhq.com/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
SCRIPT_NAME: /links/admin/nph-build.cgi
SERVER_ADMIN: admin@gagames.com
SERVER_NAME: www.motorcityhq.com
SERVER_PORT: 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.0
SERVER_SIGNATURE:
SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) mod_perl/1.19

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Hi Lazyboy!


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Message: invalid directory name: /home2/z102316e/www.motorcityhq.com/links/New.


Look at the end of the directory address - you have a period - hence the illegal character message.

Hope that helps.

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Thanx, but the period is there because that is the end of the sentence. I have an idea of what it is, but im not sure... thanx anyways!