I am trying to run the default database on a
free Web hosting service. All pages hosted by this service show an advertising banner at the top of the page.

After I fill in the login form, the next page
shows two ad. banners and the login form just
reappears below them. The login does not work, but if I use no_authentication, and
skip the login page, the same page reapears
with a double (or trippel) banner if I press e.g. List All. So, authentication is not the problem.

I have read on another server with a similar band that this may be due to the use of absolute URL. One should use relative URLs.
Could this be a solution?

Another observation is that the URL that is shown in my browser changes to something like
http://xx.host.com/abc/xxx.cgi?mydirectory/cgi-bin/db.cgi after the first page returns,
athough it was invoked with
http://xx.host.com/mydirectory/cgi-bin/db.cgi
Could this cause problems?

Any help most appreciated.

Geir Thorud

Hi,

1) Mostly the banners are put into a frame. Therefor there are 1 - 2 -3 and more banners at the same page.


2) hmmm, some free servers which allows cgi execution uses a virtual cgi dir for their users. More simple apps. will run with this but I doubt that dbman does.
Ask your webmaster.



Bye Diemo