I have just copied my dbman database from my local server over to a central server. unfortunately now when i try to log-on i get a server error:

unable to open directory in auth_cleanup: ./auth. Reason: No such file or directory

this cant be right as i have exactly the same setup as before. path to perl is fine and all other cgi scripts work fine. the /auth directory is there, tho empty.

anyone come across this before..

yes, I've come across it. I just can't remember what I did to fix it.

Check your default.cfg file and be sure that it says

$auth_dir = $db_script_path . "/auth";

I may have to think about this a bit before I will remember what we did about this before.

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JPD

Yep that is exactly what it says. so that is not the problem.

anyone else any ideas

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cybergaz

Hi JP, I'm having the same problem as Gazzer.

I went through some of the previous posts to the forum and found the following that might give you an idea:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/forum/resources/Forum5/HTML/001133.html
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/forum/resources/Forum5/HTML/001110.html
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/forum/resources/Forum5/HTML/001038.html
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/forum/resources/Forum5/HTML/000946.html

Unfortunately, some of the people who asked the original question didn't respond to say that things were okay, so we don't know if the fix worked or they just gave up.

I do recall that one person I helped did need to set the $db_script_path in the db.cgi file. If everything else seems to be okay, try doing that.

Make sure that it is the path and not the URL that you enter as the $db_script_path. You can find out the path by looking at your ftp program. It will give you the path when you open the directory.


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JPD