i installed evrything and set permissions but when i access admin.cgi through my site, instead of viewing a page, IE gives me download form asking whether to download file. arent i suppose to see a page?

Yes...you are supposed to see a page.

Make sure that you have set the complete ABSOLUTE path in the first require line in the admin.cgi file to your links.cfg file.

Like the following:



Regards,

Eliot Lee

Thanks for the reply...it helped a little bit. Now I get Intenal Error 500! lol Im going to double check everything...but please recommend a remedy because I think I did everything what the readme file says

Make sure that you have the correct Perl path in the first line of the admin.cgi file. Also, be sure that you have the correct absolute paths for the following variables in the links.cfg file:

1) $db_script_path
2) $build_root_path


Regards,

AnthroRules

did that a while ago...read the other posts...but still same problem....i think the problem is coming from the permissions. the readme tells us the permissions on the data directory, cgi files, templates, but it doesnt tell us the permissions on the other files like the .pl ; .css ; .def ; .pm ; etc.... what are the permissions for them as well as the other files/folders that werent mentioned in the readme?

All those other files should be 644 (rw-r--r--).

All cgi files should be 755 (rwxr-xr-x).

Here are the permissions you need for the directories:

cgi-bin/links/ - 755 (drwxr-xr-x)
cgi-bin/links/admin - 755 (drwxr-xr-x)
cgi-bin/links/admin/data - 777 (drwxrwxrwx)
cgi-bin/links/admin/data/hits - 777 (drwxrwxrwx)
cgi-bin/links/admin/data/rates - 777 (drwxrwxrwx)
cgi-bin/links/backups - 777 (drwxrwxrwx)

links/pages/ - 777 (drwxrwxrwx)
links/pages/Cool - 777 (drwxrwxrwx)
links/pages/Detailed - 777 (drwxrwxrwx)
links/pages/New - 777 (drwxrwxrwx)
links/pages/Ratings - 777 (drwxrwxrwx)

That should do it. I believe these are all noted in the README file.

Regards,

Regards,


Regards,

AnthroRules

done...still same problem.....how about the html and LWP folders?

Hi there,

check out the post with the subject "complete permission listing is needed" from 28-May-00 04:56PM. There ALL permissions to EACH file is listed!

Jakob

did all permissions correct, have the absolute path, all were transfered in ASCII, what is wrong? i still get internal error.

HEllo

who is your host?
Have U tell him the absolut path, sometimes, there is very strange ...

Ciao

isnt the absolute path the path that CuteFTP displays because thats the one im using. if i am wrong pls reply.

No CUteftp doesn't give the absolut path!
Tell him to your isp host (or with telnet?)

ciao

whoa! i didnt know that! thanks a lot, hope it works