Re: Fw: [mv] Problem report

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

>******    message to minivend-users from "Holger Matschinski"
><homa@homa.de>     ******
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>
>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: Holger Matschinski <homa@homa.de>
>An: <kyle@invisio.com>
>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. September 1999 00:04
>Betreff: [mv] Problem report
>
>
>> Hello Kyle,
>>
>> many many thanks for your quick answer.
>>
>> First of all, I wanted to answer through the minivend-users@minivend.com ,
>> but I've sent the Problem-Report automatically and couldn't find a quick
>> possibility to reanswer on that way.
>>
>> The mistake I've made with the CGI_URL I found by myself while reading
>many
>> of the Q&A send to the minivend-users. But it didn't solve my problem.
>It's
>> only a little more confusing now. Now there are no more any errors in the
>> error.log! Also reconfiguring the catalog is successfull now and the error
>> concerning with the REQUEST_METHOD wasn't seen again. But if I try to
>access
>> the catalog via http://www.homa.de/cgi-bin/simple only Error 404 is
>arising
>> again.
>>
>> The executable /cgi-bin/simple really exists. The installation of minivend
>> and the creation of the simple-catalog works without any error. Only the
>> question about the location to the httpd.conf I had to answer with "none"
>> because I install on an ISP-Server with no permission to that file.
>>
>> By the way: On my local NT4-System minivend runs quite well. I changed the
>> simple catalog to my needs and would like to public my shop on the Net.
>I'm
>> very surprised about that. I hope my whole work was not for the hell.
>>
>>  My ISP answered short and dry: "No experience with minivend. Our system
>> runs quite well and there's no cause to change anything!" (!?) I have no
>> idea what I could do any more. I'm working around that problem since two
>> days now. I've read all the questions to the minivend-users concerning
>that
>> problem now. But I could'nt get any answer to solve my problem. I
>> reinstalled the system may be a hundret times changing all items that
>> changeable. I think with horror about my next telefone-bill.
>>
>> It looks like all others who had that problem in the past would have
>changed
>> their ISP and the problems solved themselves. But no one wrote about his
>> solution.
>>
>> Well, if you have any more idea how you could help me you'd get my very
>best
>> applause.
>>
>> Thank you very much and best regards from Germany.
>>
>> Holger
>> homa@homa.de
>>

Holger -

I remember seeing a message on this list which mentioned that some ISP's
require all CGI programs to have the file extension ".cgi", which
minivend's "simple" demo does not have.  You might want to ask you ISP if
this is the case with their server.

It seems unlikely that a file permissions problem would lead to a 404
error, but you may want to change the "simple" file permissions to 755 or
777 just to try it.

Sorry I can't offer much more help at this time.  It tried your URL and
also the links fromt the Art Store splash page and got the 404 error every
time.  It is possible that the "simple" cgi file has been hidden from
minivend somehow?

- Ed L.

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