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Gol Derned Guestbook Script!!! :| I'm pathetic! Somebody please help me... :(

G-BOOK DeLUXE 1.9.2 by Adam Kopacz / kLoGraFX
adam.k@klografx.de / www.klografx.de
Released on: 17.07.2000

G-BOOK is a PERL guestbook with a great Administrator-Interface.
It is designed for LINUX web-server. No SSI is required.

IT WILL NOT WORK ON WINDOWS-NT SERVERS.

Works great on UNIX also.
 
Why can't I get any of these damn things to work??

All I get are "Error 500" Server errors.

The one suggested by jjones is nice and simple. I follow the instructions, I can't get it to work. 🙁

Can anyone help me??

amish 🙁
 


<< make sure all files have proper permissions set. >>


I did that just like the instructions say. 777 for the *.cgi files and 666 for the *.cfg files. 🙁

amish
 
do you have the @referrers set correctly? you should be using both your domain name and IP address just to be safe.

also, is the path to perl set correctly, some servers are different.

other than that, make sure your permissions are set correctly per chmod intructions given.
 


<< do you have the @referrers set correctly? you should be using both your domain name and IP address just to be safe.

also, is the path to perl set correctly, some servers are different.

other than that, make sure your permissions are set correctly per chmod intructions given. >>



I did it just like the instructions said. I changed the perl path to "/usr/local/bin/perl" just like the Admin told me.

This the 4th different sncript I've tried and I can't get it to work... 🙁

amish
 
hmm... strange. I've set this up for several different friends without any problems. some hosting services are very different. for example, one service required that you requested the cgi-bin to be activated (permissions) before you could run any scripts on it. have you run any cgi scripts on your server?
 
Another possibility I haven't seen mentioned is to make sure that the files are uploaded in ASCII and not Binary Mode(as you may have already known) as quoted(from link) below.

Some possible causes of a SERVER ERROR:
- Set Variables section within Perl script inaccurate
- Perl script was not uploaded in ASCII transfer mode
- Public-write permission not set for guestbook.html (see #7 above)

hth,
eplebnista
 
you shouldn't have any problems then. I would check with the hosting service to be sure you have full access to the cgi-bin to run scripts and also double check the path to perl with them.
 


<< make sure that the files are uploaded in ASCII and not Binary Mode >>


um, yeah, this is very important. sorry i neglected to mention it.
 


<< I'm pathetic! >>


No argument here. J/k. 😀

Sorry I can't help you but can you post the link to the guestbook when you get it working? I wanna sign it. 😉
 
eplebnista- That's one of the other scripts I tried. 🙂

The Perl path is exactly as shown in the email they sent me back when I asked them what the path was...

amish
 
Bump for the new title (Thanks Mods... 😉).

Anyway, I'd try uploading again to ensure ASCII (the FTP client is using Auto), but the server went down...it looks like.

amish
 
I figured you had, since it was the first one that came up in a search. I thought that the FTP issue wasn't brought up yet(might have been overlooked) and just used that site as a reference. Here are a couple of more links to some scripts.

PHP Scripts
Perl Scripts

My $.02,
eplebnista
 
Ok, uploaded as ASCII, checked permissions. Still get a 500 Error when I try to access the Admin.html (which calls the Admin.cgi).

amish
 
I write a lot of Perl for CGI scripts on Apache, I'm sure I can help you get it running. If you want my help, PM me or email me, as threads like this tend to end up with too many conflicting opinions to really be helpful.
 
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