I'm still trying to troubleshoot the What's New Link. It doesn't seem to find the directory. I think the paths are set right.
I've posted them below...

# Paths and URL's to Important Stuff
# --------------------------------------------------------
# PATH and URL of Admin CGI directory. No Trailing Slash.
$db_script_path = "/home2/www/ultra-web/cgi-bin/links/admin";
$db_dir_url = "http://www.ultra-web.com/cgi-bin/links/admin";

# URL of User CGI directory. No Trailing Slash.
$db_cgi_url = "http://ultra-web.com/cgi-bin/links";

# PATH and URL of Pages to be built. No Trailing Slash.
$build_root_path = "/home2/www/ultra-web/links";
$build_root_url = "http://www.ultra-web.com/links";

# PATH and URL of What's New page. No Trailing slash.
$build_new_path = "/home2/www.ultra-web/links/New";
$build_new_url = "http://www.ultra-web.com/links/New";

# PATH and URL of What's Cool page. No Trailing slash.
$build_cool_path = "/home2/www.ultra-web/links/Cool";
$build_cool_url = "http://www.ultra-web.com/links/Cool";

# PATH and URL of What's Rating page. No Trailing slash.
$build_ratings_path = "/home2/www.ultra-web/links/Rating";
$build_ratings_url = "http://www.ultra-web.com/links/Rating";

# 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 = ''; $db_smtp_server = 'zzack@mailexcite.com';

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

# Notify visitors automatically when their links are validated?
$db_email_add = 0;

# Notify visitors automatically when their links are modified?
$db_email_modify = 0;

# 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




I've also noticed the cgi error message in the admin scrren...

CGI ERROR
==========================================
Error Message : unable to open what's new page:
/home2/www.ultra-web/links/New/index.html. Reason: No such file or
directory
Script Location : nph-build.cgi
Perl Version : 5.00404


Any Ideas, Please advise...

Thanks

Zack

   
The paths you are using for the New and Cool pages do not match the path you specified for building the pages. In one, you have /www/ultra-web/ and in the other you have www.ultra-web.

The paths for the New, Cool and Ratings should be as follows:


I also noticed another potential problem in your configuration.


$db_smtp_server should be the name of your server, not your email address. If you are not using excite.com as your ISP but just have a mailbox there, that will not work. If they are your ISP, then find out from what the name of the server is.

Personally, I think you'd be better off using your ISP's sendmail system instead.

[This message has been edited by Bobsie (edited March 18, 1999).]

Thank you for your help with this Bobsie...
Ok, I changed the paths to the following;

# PATH and URL of Pages to be built. No Trailing Slash.
$build_root_path = "/home2/www/ultra-web/links";
$build_root_url = "http://www.ultra-web.com/links";

# PATH and URL of What's New page. No Trailing slash.
$build_new_path = "$build_url_path/New";
$build_new_url = "http://www.ultra-web.com/links/New";

# PATH and URL of What's Cool page. No Trailing slash.
$build_cool_path = "$build_url_path/Cool";
$build_cool_url = "http://www.ultra-web.com/links/Cool";

# PATH and URL of What's Rating page. No Trailing slash.
$build_ratings_path = "$build_url_path/Rating";
$build_ratings_url = "http://www.ultra-web.com/links/Rating";

and I also set my mail server correct, I kind of breezed over that one.

When I click build pages, the admin screen still shows;

Building What's New Page . . .

CGI ERROR
==========================================
Error Message : unable to open what's new page: /New/index.html. Reason: No such file or directory
Script Location : nph-build.cgi
Perl Version : 5.00404

When I go to the main page and click the what's new link it shows file not found.

For some reason its still not generating the New page. I have an empty directory "New" within the Links directory but no index.html file within.

Is there still some sort of path problem here or is it a problem with the directory settings? Please advise...

I apologize. I gave you the wrong info. Change all the $build_url_path's to $build_root_path.

Here is how it should look:


Again, I am sorry for the mistake.