Hi to everybody,

I am a new user of Eblah; I follow all the steps explain in this link to upload my forum:
http://www.blahdocs.com/Performing_a_new_installation_of_E-Blah

I did everything very carefully; I did the upload with Filezilla, choosing the transfer for the forum in ANSCII mode, and the blahdocs directory in binary mode, in the specific folders (cdi-bin, and htdocs respectively)... them I set the permissions of the directories and files required with CHMOD.
Finally, I put on the web browser this address (the name of my web site):
http://www.reinventate.com.ar/cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl
And this is what I get!

Not Found

The requested URL /cgi-bin/forum/Setup.pl was not found on this server.

Does somebody could help me to know what happen? Did I make something wrong?
Thank you very much for all your support,

Marisa

There really isn't much else a 404 error can mean other than "its not there" Errors like a 500 error can mean a few things, but 404 has one cause. It simply isn't there.

Check you uploaded the files rather than just importing them to FileZilla. Then check your path, check and check again. Remember it is case sensitive on Linux servers, everything after your base url http://www.reinventate.com needs to be the correct case or you'll see a 404.

Check that first because it's usually something very simple. also, try putting an image/photo in the same directory as Setup.pl and try to view the photo on the server. That might help determine the cause.

Also on a side note, There has recently been an update of fileZilla to version 2.0.9.3, If your version is less than that. you can get the latest one on my download site below. :D

Hi,

and thank you to be there to help me!
I do not understand when you said:

"Check you uploaded the files rather than just importing them to FileZilla. "

I usually use Dreamweaver to upload my files, but I use Filezilla this time because of the binarie and ASCII modes needed ( I understood that Dreamweaver use only ASCII to upload a file). So , I went to Filezile and I just opened my local directories, looked out for the "forum" and the "blahdocs" files ( they were already extracted from the original zip, eblah10-3-5 - ZIP archive) , and I choose to upload to the right site (my remote site, in the respective folders).
In both cases I have choose first the ASCII mode (ASCII) and the binarie mode (blah). I put the forum folder directly inside my cdi-bin folder in the remote site.
So, my question is: How can I just upload the files without using Filezilla? Is it correct the way I did? Could I just use Dreamweaver to make a new upload?

I will check the path once again (cases, etc), and it is a very good idea to put something more there, as a picture, to see what happens.

When I uploaded the software I received a zip archive, and the license document said that it is version 2!
I will check your site to get the new version, but I wonder if that is the only problem.... uhmmm. :-/

Hi,

When i said that about filezilla, i just wanted to make sure you actually "uploaded" the files rather than just putting them in filezilla. You have a local copy (usually the left pane in filezilla) and a remote copy (the right pane) I've seen people drag files into the left side which doesn't upload them, then presume its done, I just wanted to make sure you actually started the transfer queue and waited while it all uploads. A silly mistake to make but i wanted to eliminate all the possibilities. But from your response i see your well aware of that. ;)

As for the second point, I'm pretty sure dreamweaver does both binary and ascii, is usually on auto, which causes problems sometimes but it is selectable i think.

I use MS expression web, I use filezilla or other FTP clients when I'm doing something pretty complicated or elaborate like a full upgrade but for small stuff, little edits and syncing i just use the built in expression web FTP. Not to different from dreamweaver i think.

From what you just said it looks like your good to go, Just everything over once more, and check the paths. It WILL be something simple don't worry! ;)

I know this is long after the event but I wanted to clarify the 404 error statement.
I got a 404 error message and the file was there. It transpired that my hosting plan didnt support Perl, had to upgrade to sort it out. So you can get a 404 message even when the file is actually there. This might help soneone in the future.

If your host doesn't support Perl, when you enter the url of setup.pl and perl modules aren't installed you'll usually just see the code within the pl file displayed on a blank white page...

The 404 is the response from the server when it cannot find the file that has been requested. CaSe MaTteRs with Linux servers too... If the server doesn't know what to do with the file it shouldn't send a 404 error...  :-/

In my experience anyway...  :-/