I know that this would have been asked millions of times before, but I can't find the answer easly sorry.

Below I have copied part of my admin.cgi. I can't get it to work.

When I telent to my site and use the PWD command I get

/usr/home/sidecarworld/ as a responce. What should the liines below then read please?

# This script is not freeware! Please read the README for full details
# on registration and terms of use.
# =====================================================================

# Paths and URL's to Important Stuff
# --------------------------------------------------------
# PATH and URL of Admin CGI directory. No Trailing Slash.
$db_script_path = "/www/sidecarworld.com/links2/cgi-bin/admin";
$db_dir_url = "http://www.sidecarworld.com/links2/cgi-bin/admin";

# URL of User CGI directory. No Trailing Slash.
$db_cgi_url = "http://www.sidecarworld.com/links2/cgi-bin";

# PATH and URL of Pages to be built. No Trailing Slash.
$build_root_path = "/www/sidecarworld.com/links2/pages";
$build_root_url = "http://www.sidecarworld.com/links2/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/sbin/sendmail'; $db_smtp_server = '';

Change the following codes:



to the following codes:



Note: Make sure you have all your files in the correct directory based on this new configuration.

Then change the following codes:



to the following codes:



And in your admin.cgi file, make sure you are using the following require codes for the links.cfg file:



Regards,

Eliot Lee

Ok Ok Here is where the real confessions start to surface.

The reason I moved the installation into the links2 directory and made everything else a sub directory of that directory, is that I have never been able to get anything working as a sub directory of cgi-bin directory.

Does matter what I do, change it to 777, 755 666 nothing seems to make a difference in relation to getting programs to operate or sub directories visable under cgi-bin dir.

I know that this will make all of you laugh, but some of us are on a steep learning curve here!

So my real problem is knowing how to get programs in cgi-bin and anything in a sub directory under that - operational?

Thanks in advance for any help here.


AnthroRules I totally undersand that when you read this you may reach for the shape knife in your top draw and stab me repeatedly. I have got other scripts working fine:
http://www.sidecarworld.com/forums/forums.shtml
http://www.sidecarworld.com/s601/top.cgi

But I did these without using the cgi-bin directory, directly.

Sorry for being a time waster. Once I understand how I to get the cgi-bin directory "operational" for these scripts, I can sit down and painfully get these things to run.

Gary

Do you mean confusion rather than confessions???




PLEASE refer to the README file...Also, there have been three Threads posted in the past three weeks in this forum that give an explicit listing of file/directory permissions. Search this forum for Permissions List using And option and select Links Installation-Unix forum.



Regards,

Eliot Lee

My issue therefore isn't actually the settings of the program filkes in the program, but more of how I ge my cgi-bin directory on my website to behave itself.

When I am refering to CGI-Bin in my conversation I am refering to the root CGI-BIN directory of the web site not the prgram. It is this that I have the trouble with.

I have printed out all lists about permissions and stand ready to deploy the minute I work out how to get my cgi-bin directoy in line.