Sorry for my ignorance guys.

Whenever I run "Build All" I get this error:
CGI ERROR
==========================================
Error Message : unable to open count file: '/home/catalogs/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/data/hits/index.count'. Reason: Permission denied
Script Location : /home/catalogs/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
Perl Version : 5.006001


I have cgi-bin/links set at 777
I have cgi-bin/links/admin set at 777

Can you help me work through it?

Uh...READ the README file again...

/cgi-bin/links -> 755
/cgi-bin/links/admin -> 755
/cgi-bin/links/admin/backup -> 777
/cgi-bin/links/admin/hits -> 777
/cgi-bin/links/admin/ratings -> 777

Since you are on a UNIX server, the folder permissions do not propegate down to other folders within folders. In Windows server, this is another story.

Regards,

Eliot Lee

Man you're fast..

Thanks..actually I should have mentioned I had set those to the permissions as per readme file before but I got the same errpr so I tried 777.

Ok, back to 755 and same error...

Here are my paths, do you see anything wrong?

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

# URL of User CGI directory. No Trailing Slash.
$db_cgi_url = "http://www.catalogs-for-free.com/cgi-bin/links";

# PATH and URL of Pages to be built. No Trailing Slash.
$build_root_path = "/home/catalogs/public_html/links";
$build_root_url = "http://www.catalogs-for-free.com/links";

# 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";


Still getting the same error:
CGI ERROR
==========================================
Error Message : unable to open count file: '/home/catalogs/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/data/hits/index.count'. Reason: Permission denied
Script Location : /home/catalogs/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
Perl Version : 5.006001

You will need to chmod the hits directory to 777 and index.count to 666

Thanks.

Duh! Like I already mentioned!

Regards,

Eliot Lee

But I sure as hell did mention the hits directory, which you should've rephrased your REPLY to the following:



rather than blatantly trying to repeat my advice and waste GT bandwidth/disk space, and in addition, the permission you gave for the INDEX.COUNT file is WRONG....it only needs to be 644 on most UNIX/LINUX/COBALT web servers.

Regards,

Eliot Lee

Uh...wrong again, I am afraid...

Regards,

Eliot Lee

Uh...I was not mistaken. yea, I neglected to state that the index.count should be in the hits folder. But other than that, my advice was accurate, which I cannot say about your advice. Your permission suggestion was dead wrong in most cases/servers.

Also, Andy, it takes a bigger man to maintain "handles" rather than switching...without clarifying who they really are.

bye!

Regards,

Eliot Lee