I have reviewed many of the previous postings on this topic, but none of the suggestions have helped. I'm really stumped on this one. I've made sure that:

1) I've uploaded in ASCI II (Text, versus Binary, in my Fetch FTP program)
2) Permissions are set correctly
3) My path to pearl is correct

If you'd like to take a look, my txt files are at:

http://www.powerbookcentral.com/db.cgi.txt
http://www.powerbookcentral.com/default.cfg.txt

Any suggestions would be helpful!

- Steve

I tried to read your db.cgi.txt file, but I got a "forbidden" message. I think you need to change the name to db_cgi.txt. Either that or make the file world-readable.


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JPD

Thanks. The files are now at:

http://www.powerbookcentral.com/db_cgi.txt
http://www.powerbookcentral.com/default_cfg.txt

I've also contacted my host provider to inquire about reinstalling PEARL 5. Should know about that sometime tomorrow. I'll let you know if that works.

Hi there,

your text files look like they have a line break at the top, make sure this isnt the case in your db.cgi file the VERY first line has to be !#usr/bin/perl or equivalent for your server.

Hope this is the answer

regards

MDJ

The first thing I would do is change the $db_script_path back to

$db_script_path = ".";

Changing that is a last resort. I've only seen one person that needed to do it.

Making sure you have the latest version of Perl is important, too.

Then again, when I tried your database, I got a syntax error in the .cfg file, not a 500 Error. I didn't see any errors in the file you have as a .txt, though. Have you made changes in the .cfg file since you uploaded the .txt version?


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JPD