Re: Fw: [mv] Problem report, error 404, no access to catalog - Problem solved by Kyle Cook (KC)

["Holger Matschinski" <homa@homa.de>]

Hey Kyle,

feel kissed, on both sides!

That's it:

I did a new _makecat simple_ with the CGIURL -> /simple-cgi/simple.cgi.
First time he could not copy the vlink executable to that directory because
the makecat looks for an existing (!!) cgi-directory. Then I made that
directory manually and did the makecat again - looked and
"yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaa" (110dB), it worked at once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A big
stone grown in 6 days looking for that problem felt from my heart. Tomorrow
in tv-news you will hear about an earthquake in my region.

Without changing anything after the automatic installation! On my local
NT4-system two weeks ago it also worked at once without changing anything
after the automatic installation. We should trooth that installation process
a little more. The problem really was a wrong configuration of my
/www/cgi-bin directory. Because I'm not as familiar with UNIX I couldn't
improve that earlier in an other way. I will wash my ISP's head tomorrow.

Thank you Kyle, and all the others too, for your attention.

Have (had?) a nice sunday.


Holger
homa@homa.de


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: <kyle@invisio.com>
An: <minivend-users@minivend.com>
Gesendet: Sonntag, 3. Oktober 1999 06:00
Betreff: Re: Fw: [mv] Problem report, error 404, no access to catalog


> ******    message to minivend-users from "kyle@invisio.com"
<kyle@invisio.com>     ******
>
> At 02:38 AM 10/3/99 +0200, you wrote:
> >******    message to minivend-users from "Holger Matschinski"
<homa@homa.de>
> >    ******
> >
> >Hello there,
> >
> >that's the way I like it, thanks for your attention.
>
> >cgi's called from html-sites run (i.e. the counter) quite well, all files
> >run quite well while executing from the telnet connection.
>
> Telnet does not use ScriptAlias, so they should work (or produce errors)
>
> >But nothing
> >operates when calling directly through the browser. Everytimes I receive
the
> >404 error.
>
> You mean that any of those files called by http://homa.de/cgi-bin/WHATEVER
> gives you a 404 error right?
>
> I looked at your home page and I saw a call to the counter.cgi and it is
> called by:
>
> http://homa.de/counter/counter.cgi
>
> I just looked at this directory by going to:
>
> http://homa.de/counter/
>
> and it displayed its contents which includes counter.cgi !
>
> If this is the counter you were referring to, then you have a problem, it
is
> NOT using the counter in your cgi-bin! Otherwise you should be calling it
by
>
> http://homa.de/cgi-bin/counter.cgi
>
> It seriously sounds to me like your cgi-bin is not set up correctly!
>
> Try this (although you should have your isp look into the problem):
>
> Copy simple to a new directory:
>
> /www/scripts/simple
>
> and rename it:
>
> simple.cgi
>
> and change permissions - chmod 4755
>
> then try http://homa.de/scripts/simple.cgi
>
> That should show you the first mv generated page. (you would have
> to change your catalog.cfg file for any of the links to work on the first
> and following pages)
>
>
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