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Link 2.0 Next Button Problem. Big Problem....
How come the link 2.0 makes the next button on the bottom of the page, but when I click on it, says 404 page not found.. Why is this??
the url is
http://indiansite.hypermart.net/cgi-bin/links/admin/search.cgi?query=bollywood&nh=2

I know the url is in my admin. I done know why it does that. Bobsie On other hand told me that I have to edit the link.cfg file and I did that. But it dont help. I still got that problem...???Can anyone help me slove this problem..???

Thank you
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Can you post your links.cfg and let us take a look at it.
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Here is my Links.Cfg Please get back to me soon as possiable thank you ..

# -------------
# Links
# -------------
# Links Manager
#
# File: links.cfg
# Description: Contains all the setup variables.
# Author: Alex Krohn
# Email: alex@gossamer-threads.com
# Web: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/
# Version: 2.0
#
# (c) 1998 Gossamer Threads Inc.
#
# 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 = "/data1/hypermart.net/indiansite/cgi-bin/links/admin";
$db_dir_url = "http://indiansite.hypermart.net/cgi-bin/links/admin";

# URL of User CGI directory. No Trailing Slash.
$db_cgi_url = "http://indiansite.hypermart.net/cgi-bin";

# PATH and URL of Pages to be built. No Trailing Slash.
$build_root_path = "/data1/hypermart.net/indiansite/cgi-bin/pages";
$build_root_url = "http://indiansite.hypermart.net/cgi-bin/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 = '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -t'; $db_smtp_server = '';

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

# Notify visitors automatically when their links are validated?
$db_email_add = 1;

# Notify visitors automatically when their links are modified?
$db_email_modify = 1;

# Log all outgoing messages? Put the full path to a logfile and make sure it
# exists and is writeable (chmod 666 -rw-rw-rw-). This logfile can get pretty
# big!
$db_mailer_log = '';

# Build Options
# --------------------------------------------------------
# Setting for popular cutoff, can either be a percent (i.e. top 3%), or
# a fixed value (i.e. top 10). Enter 0.03 or 10 respectively.
$db_popular_cutoff = 0.03; # Top 3%
# Number of days a link is considered New.
$db_new_cutoff = 14; # 14 days old.
# Return search results bolded (1 = yes, 0 = no).
$search_bold = 1;
# The name of an index file.
$build_index = "index.html";
# The extension to use for non index files:
$build_extension = ".html";

# Should your add.cgi automatically select what category the user
# is adding his link into?
$db_single_category = 1;

# Directory Permissions. Do NOT put quotes around it. Set to 0777
# for world writeable. If you put this at 0755, you might need a
# script to remove any directories created as they will be owned
# by the web server or user nobody. Better solution might be to
# run the nph-build routine from the command shell.
$build_dir_per = 0777;

# The script can now break up category pages that have more then x
# number of links in it. It will also create next and previous links
# to help navigate. Set this to 1 if you want to break up pages or 0 if
# you want to have only one page per category.
# Setting this to one, will also break up the What's New pages into
# per day sections (not affected by number of links per page).
$build_span_pages = 1;

# Number of links per page.
$build_links_per_page = 10;

# Detailed View: The script can build a single html page per link. This is
# great if you have a review in your database. To enable, you must set
# the directory where all the pages will be stored, the url to that directory
# and set the enable option.
$build_detailed = 0;
$build_detail_path = "$build_root_path/Detailed";
$build_detail_url = "$build_root_url/Detailed";

# Use Templates: instead of editing site_html.pl, you can edit regular html pages
# encoded with special <%links_tags%>. It's not as flexible as site_html.pl, but it
# may be easier.
$build_use_templates = 1;

# Site Title, the default title to use. You should really spend some time customizing
# the directory though!
$build_site_title = 'Indian Site';

# Date Routines
# --------------------------------------------------------
# Your date format can be whatever you like, as long as the following
# two functions are defined &date_to_unix and &unix_to_date:
# The default is dd-mmm-yyyy.

sub date_to_unix {
# --------------------------------------------------------
# This routine must take your date format and return the time a la UNIX time().
# Some things to be careful about..
# timelocal does not like to be in array context, don't do my($time) = timelocal (..)
# int your values just in case to remove spaces, etc.
# catch the fatal error timelocal will generate if you have a bad date..
# don't forget that the month is indexed from 0!
#
my $date = shift; my $i;
my %months = map { $_ => $i++ } qw!Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec!;
my ($day, $mon, $year) = split(/-/, $date);

exists $months{$mon} or return undef;
$day = int($day); $year = $year - 1900;

require Time::Local;
my $time = 0;
eval {
$time = &Time::Local::timelocal(0,0,0, $day, $months{$mon}, $year);
};
if ($@) { die "invalid date format: $date - parsed as (day: $day, month: $months{$mon}, year: $year). Reason: $@"; }
return $time;
}

sub unix_to_date {
# --------------------------------------------------------
# This routine must take a unix time and return your date format
# A much simpler routine, just make sure your format isn't so complex that
# you can't get it back into unix time.
#
my $time = shift;
my ($sec, $min, $hour, $day, $mon, $year, $dweek, $dyear, $tz) = localtime $time;
my @months = qw!Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec!;
$year = $year + 1900;
return "$day-$months[$mon]-$year";
}

sub long_date {
# --------------------------------------------------------
# This routine is for printing a nicer date format on the what's new page. It should
# take in a date in your current format and return a new one.
my $time = shift;
$time = &date_to_unix ($time);
my ($sec, $min, $hour, $day, $mon, $year, $dweek, $dyear, $tz) = localtime $time;
my @months = qw!January February March April May June July August September October November December!;
my @days = qw!Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday!;
$year = $year + 1900;
return "$days[$dweek], $months[$mon] $day $year";
}

# -------------------------------------------------------------
# Extra Paths -- unless you feel the need to rename files, you
# can leave this as is.
# -------------------------------------------------------------
$db_script_url = $db_dir_url . "/admin.cgi"; # Admin script.
$db_header_path = $db_script_path . "/header"; # Place to store header and footers.
$db_footer_path = $db_script_path . "/footer";
$build_search_url = $db_dir_url . "/search.cgi"; # URL of search script.
$build_add_url = $db_cgi_url . "/add.cgi"; # URL of add script.
$build_modify_url = $db_cgi_url . "/modify.cgi"; # URL of modify script.
$build_jump_url = $db_cgi_url . "/jump.cgi"; # URL of jump script.
$build_email_url = $db_cgi_url . "/subscribe.cgi"; # URL of email update script.
$build_rate_url = $db_cgi_url . "/rate.cgi"; # URL of rate script.
$db_mail_url = $db_dir_url . "/nph-email.cgi"; # URL of admin mass mail script.
$build_css_url = $build_root_url . "/links.css"; # URL to your CSS file.

$db_lib_path = $db_script_path; # PATH of library files.
$db_links_name = "$db_script_path/data/links.db"; # PATH to links database.
$db_category_name = "$db_script_path/data/categories.db"; # PATH to category database.
$db_valid_name = "$db_script_path/data/validate.db"; # PATH to validation database.
$db_modified_name = "$db_script_path/data/modified.db"; # PATH to modification database.
$db_url_name = "$db_script_path/data/url.db"; # PATH to URL lookup database.
$db_email_name = "$db_script_path/data/email.db"; # PATH to email database.
$db_links_id_file_name = "$db_script_path/data/linksid.txt"; # PATH to links counter file.
$db_category_id_file_name = "$db_script_path/data/categoryid.txt"; # PATH to category counter file.
$db_hits_path = "$db_script_path/data/hits"; # PATH to hits directory.
$db_template_path = "$db_script_path/templates"; # PATH to templates.
$db_rates_path = "$db_script_path/data/rates"; # PATH to ratings.
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# Referers -- which hosts are allowed to add to your database.
@db_referers = ();

# PATH of sendmail. # SMTP Server
$db_mail_path = '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -t'; $db_smtp_server = '';

Change it to read:
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# Referers -- which hosts are allowed to add to your database.
@db_referers = ('username.hypermart.net','yourdomain.com');

# PATH of sendmail. # SMTP Server
$db_mail_path = '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject'; $db_smtp_server = '';

Notice that I have added the referers and also took out the -t extension from your $db_mail_path.
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I uploaded the search.cgi in my /cgi-bin/links bobsie like how you said and I changed the refer thing. But the url to the next button link doesnt change when I type in bollywood. it goes url one and url two but when I click on it, does not change it says the same url as before. do I have to change the url by my self or it should do it.??

Its not doing it...

Thank you
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Bin,

As I said before... remove the /cgi-bin from $build_root_path and $build_root_url. You cannot build your web pages inside a cgi directory.

Once you have that path and URL correct, Links should create the page 2 hyperlink correctly.
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Bobsie, I did what you said I put http://indiansite.hypermart.net/pages/bollywood/ K that works, but when I click on search and it comes up the result for bollywood and when I click on link 2 it still havent change it has just stayed the same...

What can I do

Thank you
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Make sure this reads this way in your links.cfg:

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$db_cgi_url = "http://indiansite.hypermart.net/cgi-bin/links";

Also make sure that the /cgi-bin/links directory contains ALL the user accessible scripts (add.cgi, modify.cgi, search.cgi, subscribe.cgi, rates.cgi, and jump.cgi).

[This message has been edited by Bobsie (edited July 19, 1999).]
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Code:
# PATH and URL of Pages to be built. No Trailing Slash.
$build_root_path = "/data1/hypermart.net/indiansite/cgi-bin/pages";
$build_root_url = "http://indiansite.hypermart.net/cgi-bin/pages";

You are trying to build your pages in a cgi directory. You need to build them in a web directory. Most servers will not allow you to load html pages from a cgi directory.

Also, according to the URL you specified:

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http://indiansite.hypermart.net/cgi-bin/links/admin/search.cgi?query=bollywood&nh=2

your search.cgi is in the wrong place (/cgi-bin/links/admin). It should be in the /cgi-bin/links directory instead. If you password protect your admin directory, no one will be able to search because they will need to know the password in order to do so.

I hope this helps.

[This message has been edited by Bobsie (edited July 19, 1999).]
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Bobsie I did what you told and it still doesnt the change the link for the second part. I dont know why. I serch it and it still doesnt change the link all the other links changed but that didnt. I dont know why.

Please help

Thank you
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If you are willing to email me authorization to ftp to your site, I can check it out. Send email to bobsie@orphanage.com