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Problems with cool|new|rate and one or two more questions....
Hi. I am currently trying desperately to fix the final few details to get this link page up an running. I don't know Perl so if you would take that into account in your answer I would appreciate it.

The page is currently at http://www.vbexplorer.com/links/

The | What's New | What's Cool | Top Rated | links do not seem to be using the templates I created. I modified all the templates and they all seem to be used except for these three. I saw the other post on links.cfg but it wasn't answered. Here are the current settings

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

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

# PATH and URL of Pages to be built. No Trailing Slash.
$build_root_path = "F:/users/vbexplor/www/htdocs/links";
$build_root_url = "http://www.vbexplorer.com/links";

# 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";

The other question is that I deleted the test links in the database using the admin interface yet if I go to 'What's New' they are still listed. Not sure if there is something else I need to do to kill them just wanted to be sure that I wasn't going to end up with a lot of 'phantom' links dragging down the database.

It may also be a lot to ask but if at all possible I need to get this done ASAP because of my work schedule I'd like to launch this page before Saturday or it is likely to be a while before I can get back to it. I apreciate any help you can offer.

Burt

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Re: Problems with cool|new|rate and one or two more questions.... In reply to
Well Is Seem's All Other Link's Work But With The "What's New" Link I Noticed Your Page Points To http://www.vbexplorer.com/links/New.html Whitch I Wrong It Should Be http://www.vbexplorer.com/links/New/ Other Than That Every Thing Else Look's Ok.
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Re: Problems with cool|new|rate and one or two more questions.... In reply to
and the
www.vbexplorer.com/links/New/
exist, you have do something wrong with your
home.html template
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<a class="menulink" href="http://www.vbexplorer.com/links/New.html">What's New</a>
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ciao
Nicky
mse.nicky.net





[This message has been edited by Nicky (edited November 21, 1999).]
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Re: Problems with cool|new|rate and one or two more questions.... In reply to
Thanks. Actually I changed the links new,ratings and cool after I couldn't get it to work right and was just fiddling trying to figure why. Guess I forgot to change one back. Regardless the others weren't working either way and now are. I can swear that I reloaded the page and cleared the cache etc so I don't know why. The main thing is it works now. I do wonder if NT is to blame since I see 'stefanm' asked a similar question about these same three links and is also using an NT server. Can it be that NT may either cache some setting or variable or something else? Maybe some settings that the script use are updated once a day or something? Or maybe some session variables are saved for some reason? Anyway, its for smarter minds than mine. If anyone else has a problem with this and NT they may want to see if it fixes itself when the server is restarted assuming all their other settings are correct.