I thought I had installed everything OK but when I click on a link I get the following error ---

Error: Can't find link id: (number of link)

Before someone tells me that I should check before posting -I have searched the foums and the only thing I found was a thread that suggested checking the paths in links.cfg but my paths there are correct.

(ALSO: I would like to suggest that some one gets it together to provide a comprehensive and simple to use FAQ section so that people do not have to seach loads of posts hoping to get something relevant. Is this a good idea or is a there a reason no one has done this?)

Stu posted a question about this in the Discussion forum a few hours ago - I am in the process of setting one up at....

www.perlmad.com

Should be ready tonight or tommorrow.

Installations:http://wiredon.net/gt
MODS:http://wiredon.net/gt/download.shtml

Good news. I have already bookmarked your site. BUT going back to my question:

Can someone please shed some light on my links ID error? Please!!

Thanks

Does a link with that ID exist in the database?

Installations:http://wiredon.net/gt
MODS:http://wiredon.net/gt/download.shtml

Paul,
In answer to your question All the links are in links.db but there is only one number on the whole page at linksid.txt
Alan

linksid.txt should have a number in it relating to the number of links in your database.

So if you have 10 links, linksid.txt should have 10 in it.

Make sure in link.html you have

<a href="<%db_cgi_url%>/jump.cgi?ID=<%ID%>"><%Title%></a>

Installations:http://wiredon.net/gt
MODS:http://wiredon.net/gt/download.shtml

Hi,

I have three links and eight categories. The number in linksid.txt is 11 so I guess "total links" includes categories.

Link.html is still as originally supplied - as follows:

<ul><li><a class="link" href="<%db_cgi_url%>/jump.cgi?ID=<%ID%>"><%Title%></a>

<%if Description%>
<span class="descript">- <%Description%></span>
<%endif%>

<%if isNew%>
<small><sup class="new">new</sup></small>
<%endif%>

<%if isPopular%>
<small><sup class="pop">pop</sup></small>
<%endif%>

<small class="date">(Added: <%Date%> Hits: <%Hits%> Rating: <%Rating%> Votes: <%Votes%>) <a href="<%db_cgi_url%>/rate.cgi?ID=<%ID%>">Rate It</a></small>

</ul>

Alan

no LINKSid.txt should have 3 in it not 11

Installs:http://wiredon.net/gt
FAQ:http://www.perlmad.com

Paul,

I added another link (making a total of four) and now linksid.txt says 12 which still ties in with the 8 categories. I don't know what the extra eight refers to if not the categories. I am getting pretty confused here. Also the links work from the Rate It page site link but not from the search results.

As I said, it should say 4 in it now. Edit the file.

Installs:http://wiredon.net/gt
FAQ:http://www.perlmad.com

OK. Done that - it now says 4 but it makes no difference, I still get the same error. I have just found some old posts that seem to say that this could be caused by not having a links.db.bak file. Is this right?? If this is essential 1) why wasn't this in the download and 2) how do I create a blank file like this. I know how to create html, cgi and txt files to upload but not this .db.bak file - and cuteftp only allows me to create new folders not files. Sorry I am so new to all this - I appreciate your help.

Open links.db and choose a link ID that you know exists and then in your browser go to www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=ID_NUMBER_THAT_EXISTS

Do you still get the error?

Installs:http://wiredon.net/gt
FAQ:http://www.perlmad.com

If I go to http://www.mydomain/cgibin/links/jump.cgi?ID=10 I get the same error message as before: "Error: Can't find link id: 10"

Um but I thought you said you only had 4 links in your database so why are you using ID=10

You should be using ID=1 ID=2 ID=3 ID=4

Installs:http://wiredon.net/gt
FAQ:http://www.perlmad.com

Its comlicated - I had already deleted a number of test links and the link ids were all over the place - not in order. They are all definitely gone now. I have also deleted every link and started again and I now have ID=1 ID=2 ID=3 ID=4 etc and I have updated built pages with these links included BUT I still get the same error when linking from built pages or from search results. Linking from the Rate a Resource page link is OK. When I update pages I get a cgi error message about backup in the admin update page but the built pages update OK.

Why is it that the site links on the Rate a Resource page work OK (i mean the one when you get when you click on rate it) but the same links on the search results pages give an error?