#22, RE: 1 BlogBomb - Installation - Videos
Posted by Kurt on Dec-06-07 at 12:13 PM
In response to message #16
>I just wanted to report back with my ongoing problems and >get your feedback, Kurt. > >Even after support said the cgi-bin was turned on for my >site, I still could not get things working. > >Today, I made some progress in getting information. I host >with hostgator, so this may help someone else, I don't know. > >"You didn't have executable permissions on the file, and you >were missing "print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";" from the >perl file." > >When I asked for explanations they said: > >"Permissions on files and folders can not be world or group >writable. Please make sure your files are 644 and >scripts/folders 755. Anything like 777 would cause >failures". > >So is this right and will this work for this script?: > - blogbomb_admin.cgi - 644 > - feedsearch_ssi.cgi - 644 > - data.pl - 644 > - /data - 755 > - /data/cache - 644 > > - /templates - 755 > - /XIT - 755 > - /libwww - 755 > > >"I believe Dave was refeering to the actual cgi script >feeds_admin.cgi" > >So Kurt, where would I put the line "print "Content-type: >text/html\n\n";" in the blogbomb_admin.cgi file? Is that >written up correctly? "print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";" > >At this point, I get a 500 error for the admin log in. I >don't know if they put the line "print "Content-type: >text/html\n\n";" in or not. They say they don't do script >support. > >Thanks for your help. Hi Jeannie, Anything that had permissions set at 777 should be set at 755 on your server. Also, try installing a simple script first in the cgi-bin, to make sure the cgi-bin even works. Start with Bo's Amazon script and get it to work or other simple to install script.
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