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Re: How can I check web server permissions for 'cgi-bin' directory ?

by Anonymous Monk
on Aug 07, 2000 at 09:18 UTC ( [id://26505]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How can I check web server permissions for 'cgi-bin' directory ?

i agree with pschoonveld on making sure that the script is exe by all but on some machines you will have to chmod 755 'scriptname'. the hp-ux system that i have dealings with doesnt understand something like chmod a+x 'scriptname' another thing to keep in mind is that when you xfer files to a system you may need to be in ASCII instead of BINARY mode to do the xfer properly you can do this by typing in asciiENTER from the command line - if you do commanline ftping - ftp>ascii (you will then get a message that your are in ascii mode as opposed to binary. i hope that this wasnt a waste of anyones reading time... these are just some things i have found along the way - keeps you from kicking yourself for spending hours debugging when it wasnt you codes fault. oh one last thing... i know Mindspring (a client has his site there) has a book they can send you or an online section for help for this kind of thing... you may want to check with your host for some of this kind of information, but MSpring makes you use this line: use (cgi-lib.pl); -> def. make sure you know which release you are dealing with on the server. s. "do || (!do): try command not found" -/home/yoda/.plan

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