Hi.

Installed files to server space (Unix) - can see them all in there.

CHMOD's all check out ok.

Have run the install script - saw a page of text pop into browser (Safri on Mac OS X) but no forum is showing at URL.

I appreciate people need more info but I am unsure what you'd need - my initial request is what should I see after entering the "..cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl" ?

Many thanks for any help - I have managed to convince a group I am assisting to ditch alternatives for eblah so getting it live fast would help me maintain the stance that it is superior!  

Are you seeing the text version of the script?  I'm not entirely sure what you mean.  Can you post a screenshot, please?

I get the text inside the browser window.

Attached...

I think it could be that the CGI folder isn't at root (ie I have the software inside a folder of an existing site)... called for help from my webhost who has set the folders up...

You get this if cgi isn't enabled.  If they have now set you up a cgi-bin folder then you need to upload the forum folder to there in ASCII and re-run the Setup.

What I have is the software in a folder not root - there is an HTDOCS at route and also a cgi-bin at root but the software (eblah) is in a subfolder. Will it work like that and if so do I just need to tweak the path to the correct cgi-bin? (also do I need to put the files into the route cgi-bin - I mistakenly created a new one in the sub folder!

Thanks!

If you have a cgi-bin then this is where the forum folder should be. A lot of hosts only allow cgi scripts to run within the cgi-bin folder.

OK - all files for cgi-bin now in the root. Blahdocs folder is in the htdocs in teh root as well.

Forum is there but now I have permissions problems - it's not letting my admin login amend anything and when I post I get the following error...

"Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@afcwimbledon.co.uk and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log."

Any ideas?

(appreciate the time, trouble and patience of all assisting).

Ok... got the forum working now pretty much on song...

lost my theme/css now.

ANy clues?

(PS solved the problem with some CHMOD's).

First delete the .htaccess file out of the blahdocs directory.  If that doesn't fix it, Go to your admin center (/Blah.pl?v-admin) and then to Theme manager, and make a theme the default theme.

-Craig.

No .htaccess file in blahdocs.

In Themes Manager there are none shown.

When I select "Search for new themes" I get:

"Error
Sorry, but an error occurred. If you are unsure about how to solve this error you can contact the system administrator.
     The theme you chose is invalid."

Error logs are showing a fall over with a possible clue..

"/home/afcwimbledon/htdocs/blahdocs/template//theme "

The double backslash looks odd...

Should my settings.pl that says:

$templates = "/blahdocs/template";
$templatesu = "/blahdocs/template";

read:

$templates = "blahdocs/template";
$templatesu = "blahdocs/template";

??

You need the forward slash there and the double slash wouldn't make a difference.

Are you using an ftp program, if so then make sure it is set to display hidden files.
There will be a .htaccess as it is there in the file distribution so if you uploaded all files then it would also have been uploaded.

Hi

Jonesie is right - the actualy message is:
[Mon Mar 26 01:37:50 2007] [error] [client 82.43.184.195] File does not exist: /home/afcwimbledon/htdocs/blahdocs/template//admintemplate.css

I can of course cheat and copy the css in there but really it needs to see the default theme

Could this be another case of CHMOD?

I oughta fess up here to having deleted (oops) the blahdocs in error and then reupping the folder.

Is this a clue?

If you uploaded everything in the blahdocs folder in Binary mode, it should find it.  I don't think chmoding makes a difference with the templates folder unless it can't be read at all.  The only one in the blahdocs area that is critical to be chmoded is the uploads directory, and that has to be set to 777 for it to work (sometimes 755).  

Your templates directory is set wrong.  This will be the full path to your templates folder.  It should be something like:  /home/afcwimbledon/htdocs......blah blah blah.

-Craig.