Hi team,

I would like to have a crack at installing this software but have a few 'issues' with my webserver.

The guts is that I don't have a cgi-bin dir I can just dump the correct files into nor am I allowed to create one under that name so while I think I can install this software I will need to use two dirs perhaps one called 'chat' which has html etc hanging off my home dir and another perhaps called chatcgi with the .pl scripts etc in them?

I'm wondering if I am going to need to change other dirs in some of the files (over and above the chat-settings.pl) as I am moving away from a conventional install?

I am also really unsure as to the correct paths to use in the chat-settings.pl for my 'modified' install to work correctly.

Can someone help me please?

My site is http://www.zl4aa.org.nz/forum/Blah.pl?   - If you want to take a look now at how things are running

Paul

Try these for chat-settingspl

$blahdir="/home/httpd/vhlinks/www.zl4aa.org.nz/forum";
$chatURL = "/chat";
$chatIndexPath = "/home/httpd/vhlinks/www.zl4aa.org.nz/chat";
$path_to_banned_ip_file = "/home/httpd/vhlinks/www.zl4aa.org.nz/cgichat/banned.txt";

You will also have to edit the mod and change:

Code <iframe src="/cgi-bin/cgi-chat/chat.pl" width="100%" height="40" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" scrolling="no" name="chat">

To:

Code <iframe src="/cgichat/chat.pl" width="100%" height="40" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" scrolling="no" name="chat">

Hello
I tried to install  phpshout_1094  on to my new forum .In the installation instruction ,says Open the PHPShout folder in your ftp program and CHMOD profanities.php, config.php and messages.txt to 666

But there is no  Config.php  in the folder  .You mean the Config.txt ???????  to be in 666

I forgot what I did when I installed on my other forum

Now I am installing 2 forums Please help

http://www.kerala-malayalam.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?

http://www.kerala-malayalam.com/cgi-bin/4rum/Blah.pl?

Ok I found the mistake now . there is bug in the file .  There wasn't any config.php file ..  It was uselfull if you edit the  shoutbox mode ..

Cheers
http://www.kerala-malayalam.com/cgi-bin/4rum/Blah.pl?

I have done as you suggested Martin and I now get on my forum homepages

Software error:
Unable to open the Online File for reading and writing.. at /home/httpd/vhlinks/www.zl4aa.org.nz/cgichat/chat.pl line 28.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (webmaster@web.mydns.net.nz), giving this error message and the time and date of the error

I chmod all files in the cgichat folder to 777 and got the chat button running but now when I run the module I see another error - the system seems to fail trying to open an unspecified file.

Unsure about how safe it is to leave this dir open with eveything set to 777 have changed it back to 755 for now and original error appears, I'll wait until I hear from you, Could I put an index.html with a redirect in it or similar to tighten up security?

I've had a look for you and I'm 99% sure that your forum is corrupt. There are several files that will not chmod or download due to being corrupt.#

I installed a test forum for you here: http://www.zl4aa.org.nz/test_forum/Blah.pl? and everything seems to work OK.

Most of these problems are down to your host and the way they have setup the server permissions etc.
Given the opportunity, I would switch ASAP.

Quoted from Martin

I've had a look for you and I'm 99% sure that your forum is corrupt. There are several files that will not chmod or download due to being corrupt.#

I installed a test forum for you here: http://www.zl4aa.org.nz/test_forum/Blah.pl? and everything seems to work OK.

Most of these problems are down to your host and the way they have setup the server permissions etc.
Given the opportunity, I would switch ASAP.

Can you PM me with the specifics I can't easily move, apart from the forum software to be fair to my host (who charge me nothing as we are a non profit club) I have had no probs with the basic html website I'm running.

Looks like the testfourm is a carbon copy of the original site, posts and all, so could we not just shift over to this one or??

Really appreciate you haveing a look at it Martin.

Paul

I installed fresh and then copied over Boards, Messages, Members etc.

I'll pm you some file details tonight when I get in.

Quoted from Martin

I installed fresh and then copied over Boards, Messages, Members etc.

I'll pm you some file details tonight when I get in.

Thanks...

I wonder if I just redirect all traffic to the new install then.. I think some files will need to be chmod some more as certain things like login/logout etc dont seem to work.

From a cosmetic viewpoint it would be better to try to get the original one sorted as a url with 'test_forum' in it doesn't look too flash to a user

Login works fine for me, was logging in and out most of the afternoon yesterday. Try clearing cookies.

If you want to point to the test forum, just rename forum to forum_old and then test_forum to forum

Quoted from Martin

Login works fine for me, was logging in and out most of the afternoon yesterday. Try clearing cookies.

If you want to point to the test forum, just rename forum to forum_old and then test_forum to forum

Sorry you misunderstand, I mean the logging of login/out records does not work in your reinstall.

Not sure I follow your second point, if I changed these dir names would the 'new' version of eblah still work as all the paths in your settings would point to "test_forum/blah.pl' -I'm thinking of the chat-settings.pl and the settings.pl for eblah?

Quoted from zl4aa

Sorry you misunderstand, I mean the logging of login/out records does not work in your reinstall.

Not sure I follow your second point, if I changed these dir names would the 'new' version of eblah still work as all the paths in your settings would point to "test_forum/blah.pl' -I'm thinking of the chat-settings.pl and the settings.pl for eblah?

Hi Martin, can you respond to my question please and PM me the info you were talking about earlier  

Thanks

Paul