Perl

[gds]

I am currently having perl problems like other people on the forum. I haven't gotten the simplest scripts to run. I've been trying to get the ikonboard installer to run. Is there a file in the public_html folder that is needed to run perl? I might have deleted it. Please asap! I really need some help.

Thanks in advance!

[Mr. Popularity]

nope.

what does the very top line of your scripts say? they should say:
#!/usr/bin/perl
also there are some issues if you have any dead space below your final curly } in the file. sometimes that causes problems.

Also, Ikonboard is crap. everyone has problems with it. try openBB or vBulletin. Geesh, I sound like a vBulletin salesman :)

[gds]

The script apears to be fine mister salesman. :D (just joking) I have tried the script in all directories. ie cgi-bin.....

the error i get is "Internal Server Error".

[El_Nino]

Look at your Error Log, it'll tell you what is wrong in there.

[gds]

[Fri Feb 22 17:06:37 2002] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xx] File does not exist: /home/username/public_html/500.shtml [Fri Feb 22 17:06:37 2002] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xx] Premature end of script headers: /home/username/public_html/ikonboard/installer.cgi [Fri Feb 22 17:06:37 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of /home/username/public_html/ikonboard/installer.cgi failed [Fri Feb 22 17:06:36 2002] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xx] File does not exist: /home/username/public_html/500.shtml [Fri Feb 22 17:06:36 2002] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xx] Premature end of script


Help please :)

[El_Nino]

Try unzipping that file again from the zip file that you downloaded from IkonBoard. Also, make sure you're uploading it in ASCII mode via FTP and not Binary.

[gds]

I've been uploading with Internet Explorer. Is that alright? Thanks

[El_Nino]

Probably not, I've had problems with scripts not working if I use IE to connect to FTP. This is probably why none of your CGI scripts will work. Download SmartFTP, WS_FTP or CuteFTP and use those to upload your files and they'll work

[gds]

Do you have a instant messager? :D

[tlp]

I get the same error, I have had IB running for about 2 weeks and now
about 7 people have had pearl probs.....hummm

[mr04sirrom]

I also have a (commercial) script running that does not work since it is installed on my website at hostrocket. I see the same error messages like everybody else does...

I invited the developers of this cgi (perl) script to run some tests and they also double checked my installation.

They told me to inform Hostrocket that the perl DBMOPEN command is not working and should be (re-)installed. This seems to cause all troubles.

I did sent 2 trouble tickets but there comes no respons. [:(] I hope they fix it soon. I am new to hostrocket and hope they keep
me a happy customer. But unfortunally this is not a good start.

[metaphyber]

I'm having perl problems...

I am a professional perl developer, and I know when my scripts are configured correctly.

I have everything for my script right, but when you run it, it acts like it worked, but it didn't.

When you check the error log, there isn't any errors...

It's kind of like a message board script. I call it a graffiti wall. You put your text, click spray, it goes out to graffiti.pl, and then graffiti.pl goes out and places the content on the graffiti.htm file...it does this, says message added, but when you check graffiti.htm it isn't there like it should be.

The problem is that the perl file isn't seeing the <!--begin--> in the graffiti.htm file, but it's there..and I know it's setup right.

I think this is an error that is beyond my possibility of fixing, possibly a hostrocket server error.