[Jansar]

I have this broblem uploading a forum script to a server, as I cannot get it working.

I'm trying to install a bulletin board called "YaBB," an open-source project. It tells me to upload some files in ASCII and others in BINARY, which is fine, but some need to go through a process called "chmod". Does anyone know how to do that? Or what that means for that matter?

[rfitz@mac.com]

Originally posted by Jansar:
<STRONG>I have this broblem uploading a forum script to a server, as I cannot get it working.

I'm trying to install a bulletin board called "YaBB," an open-source project. It tells me to upload some files in ASCII and others in BINARY, which is fine, but some need to go through a process called "chmod". Does anyone know how to do that? Or what that means for that matter?</STRONG>

chmod is how you change the permission of the files. You can do a man chmod to get more info on it. But for cgi scripts i think you have to do this: "chmod 755 nameoffile"

[Jansar]

I see. So do you do it through the Terminal?

[pizzasub]

Originally posted by Jansar:
<STRONG>I see. So do you do it through the Terminal?</STRONG>

Yeahup. Pretty simple, you either have to own the file or be root to modify its permissions.

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by pizzasub:
<STRONG>

Yeahup. Pretty simple, you either have to own the file or be root to modify its permissions.</STRONG>

So if you do want to own it, try a <font face = "courier">sudo chown username filename</font> and enter your admin password.

BTW, I went nuts last night trying to figure out why running a CGI script kept giving me 'Error 500 - Internal Server Error' messages. It transpired that all the linebreaks in the CGI file were DOS - a simple resave from BBEdit as UNIX linebreaks and things were silky smooth. Well... better anyway

[ 02-05-2002: Message edited by: Simon Mundy ]

[Jansar]

Thanks for your help guys. I was able to "chmod" the files. However, my cgi script still won't run for some reason, but I've got our network admin on it, so it so it should be up soon. If you want to have an idea of what I'm talking about, click here.

[pizzasub]

Originally posted by Jansar:
<STRONG>Thanks for your help guys. I was able to "chmod" the files. However, my cgi script still won't run for some reason, but I've got our network admin on it, so it so it should be up soon. If you want to have an idea of what I'm talking about, click here.</STRONG>

Hi,

It looks like your webserver needs to be configured to properly handle CGI scripts. When I go to that url, I get a perl script...

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by pizzasub:
<STRONG>

Hi,

It looks like your webserver needs to be configured to properly handle CGI scripts. When I go to that url, I get a perl script...</STRONG>

There's two things you'll need to do in httpd.conf :-

Make sure the following line is uncommented:

<font face = "courier"> AddHandler cgi-script .cgi</font>

Then make sure the directory you're serving your CGIs from has the following directives (or something similar):

<font face = "courier"> &lt;Directory /path/to/your/CGI&gt;
Options MultiViews Indexes +Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
&lt;/Directory&gt;</font>

The important command, obviously, being ExecCGI! I'm going to have a good bet that that's why your CGI file is being served up like that.