New to this and appreciate your patience! I'm trying to access MySQLman through a browser and I get the "not authorized to access on this server" message. I think my problem may lay in the path to perl and I'm a little confused as to where this should be. Is it the very first line of the cgi? I should tell you I'm working on NT.

Steve

Yes it goes on the first line - as you will see if you open up the script!

On Windows it may be something like #!C:/perl/bin/perl but CHECK with your host.

The not authorized error may mean that you can't execute cgi scripts in that particular directory.

Paul
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Thanks Paul, but I've still got the access problem. Any idea how to "enable" cgi scripting in that directory?

Thanks once again

Steve

Who ever has root access will have to do it.....

Something like....

<Directory C:/path/to/directory/>
Options &#043;ExecCGI
</Directory>

Make sure you also have....

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl


Paul
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I think this is the same problem I am having. The problem is not that the database can't be accessed, but that the script cannot access a file it needs from it's directory in the CGI-bin. A lot of services prevent people from reading stuff in your CGI-bin. THe program is trying to read one of the templates, or something, and is being told by the server files in the CGI-bin are not allowed to be read.

I moved my Template and Help folders into a new directory, and modified the cfg file, and it solved that problem but caused others for me. You may get away with that, and not have any problems, but you have to try it.

Good luck.