Hi, I'd like to learn the procedure for moving Links 2 to a new web server. Beyond editing links.cfg and setting file permissions could someone outline it for me? I believe that some data must be uploaded to the new server as binary files. Is that a correct assumption?

Thanks, Ryan

No...All the files need to be uploaded in ASCII mode. The only files that need to be uploaded in binary mode are the following:

1) Graphic files (*.gif, *.jpg)
2) MS Office Files (*.ppt, *.xcl, *.doc)
3) Audio Files (e.g.,mp3 tracks)

CGI, DB, PL, and LOG files need to be transferred in ASCII mode.

You have everything else correct. Just changes the paths and file names in the config file and set the permissions appropriately on all your files.

Regards,

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Eliot Lee
Anthro TECH,L.L.C
www.anthrotech.com
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I believe I did everything as I was supposed to, but still an error. Darn! Take a look at: http://216.167.48.74/cgi-bin/links/admin/admin.cgi

Error including libraries...
Make sure they exist, permissions are set properly, and paths are set correctly.

I double checked all of this. Any reasons as to why it's still not working?

Thanks a ton, Ryan

You defined your paths wrong.

--mark

I got my admin.cgi working again, and moved everything from the "data" directory on my old server to the new one. I can add sites, modify, etc, but when I go to a build all Links gives me this. What am I doing wrong now?

Links Manager: Building Pages
Building Pages
Pages built on 6-Jan-2000 at 16:59:36
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Backing up database . . .
Backing up links, category and email database (File::Copy) ...

CGI ERROR
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Error Message : Unable to copy links backup. Reason: Permission denied
Script Location : /usr/local/etc/httpd/sites/eachandevery.com/cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
Perl Version : 5.00503

Form Variables
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Environment Variables
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DOCUMENT_ROOT : /usr/local/etc/httpd/sites/eachandevery.com/htdocs
GATEWAY_INTERFACE : CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT : application/msword, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-comet, */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us
HTTP_CONNECTION : Keep-Alive
HTTP_HOST : 216.167.48.74
HTTP_REFERER : http://216.167.48.74/cgi-bin/links/admin/admin.cgi?display=navigation
HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; MSN 2.5; Windows 98; DigExt)
PATH : /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
QUERY_STRING :
REMOTE_ADDR : 24.27.181.120
REMOTE_HOST : cvg-27-181-120.cinci.rr.com
REMOTE_PORT : 3268
REQUEST_METHOD : GET
REQUEST_URI : /cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
SCRIPT_FILENAME : /usr/local/etc/httpd/sites/eachandevery.com/cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
SCRIPT_NAME : /cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
SERVER_ADMIN : webmaster@eachandevery.com
SERVER_NAME : eachandevery.com
SERVER_PORT : 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL : HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SIGNATURE :
SERVER_SOFTWARE : Apache/1.3.6 (Unix)

Greetings Atf!

Usually means you need to chmod your backup directroy to 777

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