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Downloads admin.,pl ?!?
Greetings

I've been attempting to install the script package on my server, and have followed the sage advice offered that one needs to change all of the .cgi extensions and references thereto in all files, yet I am still experiencing a most befuddling malady here. Once I enter the address, in this case, http://farhaven.dynip.com/cgi-bin/admin/admin.pl, it insists just as it did before making all the edits, on trying to download the file from my site. This, is a new one, I must admit!

The basics:

The server runs on a Windows 98 platform, on a P200MMX, 256M RAM. The http daemon is from Omnicron, being OmniHTTPd Pro 2.02. My Perl interpreter is ActiveState Perl, build 509, which I *think* does support flock(), not certain on that. It is enabled in the links.cfg file, however. My externals are set so that the Perl interpreter processes both .cgi and .pl extensions, I have other scripted cgi's that run just fine with this setup. (The only cgi's that I have had problems with are the compiled C versions, and these run as expected once renamed to an .exe extension)

Any assistance or suggestions would be most gratefully accepted, as this one has gotten me completely stumped here...



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Belgarius Mourngrym
http://farhaven.dynip.com
webmaster@farhaven.dynip.com
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When it asks you to download the file, do it. Then open the downloaded file and see if it contains an error message (it should). Just be sure to download it so that it doesn't overwrite the original.
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I've tried just that, and here's what it does. If I try to download it, the results are a system file error (1026), and if I attempt to open it, I get an error informing me that the file or one of its components can't be located in my browser's cache.

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Belgarius Mourngrym
http://farhaven.dynip.com
webmaster@farhaven.dynip.com
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Found it!

It turns out that the problem, at least for me, lie in the obvious fact that the pathing wasn't set properly in the links.cfg file. It would appear that one has to include the FULL path, ie, server_root/cgi-bin/admin, as opposed to just cgi-bin/admin that I assumed to be correct...


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Belgarius Mourngrym
http://farhaven.dynip.com
webmaster@farhaven.dynip.com