I've been trying to install dbman in various ways and not having much luck. When I typed in "http://www.gayoutdoors/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi" in my brower window I either got a black screen with a lot of text flashing quickly or "file not found" depending on the how I entered info about the URL of my cgi-bin in the default.cfg file. (see below why I tried two ways).

I'm loading the demo into my Web Presence Provider (burlee.com)server. I'm running on FrontPage extensions so the server is a Windows NT environment. I've been told by Burlee that script permissions are already set on an NT environment so I don't need to worry about it. I've also been told by Burlee what I do not need to point anything to Perl as it recognizes it automatically but I still kept the path to Perl in the default.cfg file as it was. And I transfered all files in the ASCII mode.

I have noticed that once I transfer dbman into my web hosts' server, all files are placed in the "auth" folder. So I've tried two ways to edit $db_dir_url and both have not worked. My first try was http://www.gayoutdoors.org/cgi-bin/dbman" and the second try was http://www.gayoutdoors.org/cgi-bin/dbman/auth".

I'm at a complete lost as what to do next.

Within your default cfg, it should say something like:
#URL of the directory dbman resides in. No Trailing Slash Please.
$db_dir_url = "http://www.gayoutdoors.org/cgi-bin/dbman";
# URL of dbman.
$db_script_url = $db_dir_url . "/db.cgi";

You can then point your browser to:
http://www.gayoutdoors/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default

Can you confirm the above? There should be no dbman files under the auth directory.

Hey,

Thanks for the advice and I'll try it out. Also I did make a mistake and the files are not under the auth directory. Thanks again.

Try Renaming db.cgi to db.pl
(make the same change in default.cfg)

Most Windows servers haven't mapped *.cgi files to perl, whereas *.pl files are automatically associated when perl is installed.

You may also want to check out the post in the DBMan Discussion forum, titled DBMan in a Windows Environtment - Checklist. It may help give you some clues.

Hope this helps.

- Mark


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