Hi,

Having problems with 10.2.5 on a linux server. Have re-upped everything several times and CHMOD'd correctly. When I try and run Setup.pl I just get a page full of code.

Have a look http://www.atherstonechamber.com/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl

I've also tried changing the .pl extension to .cgi with the same result.

Any ideas?

check with your hosting company that cgi is enabled you should find that is the problem. Also did you up in ascci mode?

When I just tried it started to download? the actual .pl file

cgi is enabled and i did up in ascii mode.

it's weird because i've installed an eblah forum before without any probs, not sure what's happening this time.

i'll try deleting everything and upping again for about the 6th time.

Make sure that the path to perl is correct in both Setup.pl and Blah.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

thanks Martin, but that is also correct, just upping everything again at the moment.

It might not be #!/usr/bin/perl, I just put that as an example.

All my sites are #!/usr/bin/perl bar 1 site which is #!/usr/local/bin/perl

These are the common ones:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#!/usr/sbin/perl
#!/usr/lib/perl

yeah, i've checked with fasthosts and the path is correct.

i've just re dl'd the zip file and am going to up the fresh dl now in case something corrupted in the dl or unzipping.

will let you know how i get on!

I have an account with them and normally I install my forums to a folder called forum in the root so as to keep it all together under one folder, ie /forum/blahdocs and /forum/cgi-bin/forum.

With Fasthosts I had to use their /cgi-bin folder for the code as I had the same problem as your having now.

i'm using their cgi-bin folder. so what exactly did you do to overcome the problem?

I only had the problem if I tried to install out of their cgi-bin folder but I'm sure there is somewhere in the Control Panel, a button to tick to allow scripts to run. I'll login to mine and get back to you.

Just been onto my account and it is supposed to be enabled by default.I would contact Fasthosts and tell them that perl scripts will not run from the cgi-bin folder.

ok martin, thanks for your help. i tried disabling and re-enabling but to no joy, lets see what fh have to say. thanks mate!

Just thought, if you want me to have a quick look for you, pm me your ftp login details.

things have just changed somewhat, emailed fh, within 5 minutes when i went to run setup it turned into a 500 internal server error? then within minutes of finding that out i get a reply of fh saying all they get is the 500 error message and tell me to check my log. so i have and it says this:

[Fri Jul 27 12:31:51 2007] [error] [client 213.171.193.254] Premature end of script headers: /home/fhlinux165/a/atherstonechamber.com/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl
[Fri Jul 27 12:32:44 2007] [error] [client 86.20.83.113] Premature end of script headers: /home/fhlinux165/a/atherstonechamber.com/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl
[Fri Jul 27 12:32:56 2007] [error] [client 86.20.83.113] Premature end of script headers: /home/fhlinux165/a/atherstonechamber.com/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl
[Fri Jul 27 12:32:57 2007] [error] [client 86.20.83.113] Premature end of script headers: /home/fhlinux165/a/atherstonechamber.com/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl
[Fri Jul 27 12:32:58 2007] [error] [client 86.20.83.113] Premature end of script headers: /home/fhlinux165/a/atherstonechamber.com/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl
[Fri Jul 27 12:32:59 2007] [error] [client 86.20.83.113] Premature end of script headers: /home/fhlinux165/a/atherstonechamber.com/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl
[Fri Jul 27 12:33:52 2007] [error] [client 213.171.193.254] Premature end of script headers: /home/fhlinux165/a/atherstonechamber.com/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl
[Fri Jul 27 12:34:38 2007] [error] [client 213.171.193.254] Premature end of script headers: /home/fhlinux165/a/atherstonechamber.com/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl
[Fri Jul 27 12:35:09 2007] [error] [client 86.20.83.113] Premature end of script headers: /home/fhlinux165/a/atherstonechamber.com/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl
[Fri Jul 27 12:35:11 2007] [error] [client 86.20.83.113] Premature end of script headers: /home/fhlinux165/a/atherstonechamber.com/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl
[Fri Jul 27 12:35:32 2007] [error] [client 86.20.83.113] Premature end of script headers: /home/fhlinux165/a/atherstonechamber.com/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl
[Fri Jul 27 12:36:40 2007] [error] [client 86.20.83.113] Premature end of script headers: /home/fhlinux165/a/atherstonechamber.com/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl
[Fri Jul 27 12:36:41 2007] [error] [client 86.20.83.113] Premature end of script headers: /home/fhlinux165/a/atherstonechamber.com/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl
[Fri Jul 27 12:39:49 2007] [error] [client 86.20.83.113] Premature end of script headers: /home/fhlinux165/a/atherstonechamber.com/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl

so what's going on now?

They have their permissions set wrong on the server.