According to my provider's all-too brief cgi FAQ, the "output must be preceded by a content type and a white line."

Where do I check/change that?

Reason I ask is that I get a 500 error. The files were uploaded in ascii, and permissions set according to JP's tutorial.

My site has a virtual domain name, and cgi scripts must be uploaded to a directory called WWW.cgi (not cgi-bin). I have set the directory as follows:

$db_dir_url = "http://www.apologeticsindex.org/home/a/ahein/WWW.cgi/dbman";

The provider uses perl5.

Anton
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/

It looks like you mixing physical/absolute diretory path with your virtual path.

It should be the following:


If this doesn't work, please save your default.cfg and db.cgi files as text files and upload them to a publicly accessible directory. Then post the URL where we can see the files.

Regards,

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Anthro TECH, L.L.C
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I have uploaded db.txt and default.txt to

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/test/

I tried this line:

$db_dir_url = "http://www.apologeticsindex.org/WWW.cgi/dbman";

also with

$db_dir_url = "http://xs4all.nl/ahein/home/a/ahein/WWW.cgi/dbman";

and with

$db_dir_url = "home/a/ahein/WWW.cgi/dbman";

Thanks,

Anton
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/

Now I get a 500 error.

Are you sure you uploaded in ASCII mode?



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JPD

When I tried to access your script, using
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/WWW.cgi/dbman/db.cgi

I got

You don't have permission to access /WWW.cgi/dbman/db.cgi on this server

Are you sure your permissions are set correctly?


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JPD

Yes, they are set according to the instructions in your manual.

I must access scripts on my site as follows:

<blockquote>http://cgi.apologeticsindex.org/[script name]</blockquote>

Anton

Yes, they were uploaded in ascii mode. To be sure, I have just uploaded them again (forced ascii in CuteFTP). But when I go to

http://cgi.apologeticsindex.org/dbman/db.cgi

I get the internal service error...

Anton

I don't know if I missed this before or if you've changed it, but the first line of your db.cgi file says

#!/usr/local/bin/perl5#


It needs to say

#!/usr/local/bin/perl5

That extra # will give you an error that probably wouldn't be picked up on my compiler.

One other thing. You said


But your default.cfg file has

$db_dir_url = "http://www.apologeticsindex.org/WWW.cgi/dbman";

From what you said, it should be

$db_dir_url = "http://cgi.apologeticsindex.org/dbman";

I would fix the things above and change your $db_script_path back to the default:

$db_script_path = ".";

I have rarely seen anyone need to change that at all.


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JPD

Well, after applying both patience and coffee, I learned that the this line should read:

$db_dir_url = "/home/a/ahein/WWW.cgi/dbman";

Previously I had followed my ISP's instructions by adding full domain name.

Now I got to the admin login page, but the login did not work. I followed your instructions (delete entries in .pass file, etc.) and uploaded the default.cfg and default.pass files in ascii. Permissions are set correctly.

To access the script, I use this URL:

http://cgi.apologeticsindex.org/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default

That brings up the

Database Manager Demo: Main Menu

But then I am stuck again, because when I click on admin, or any other menu item, I get a "page not found" error.

All permissions are set according the instructions in JPs manual.

Never mind. Turns our the problem was with the fact that on my server, cgi scripts must be called like so:

cgi.domain.com

After adding the full user script path in db.cgi it works. I got to the sample database

Next I'll check out the bells and whistles. I'll be looking for a forum where I can ask questions regarding my intended use for the database (news articles).

Anton Hein
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/