martin(rps) — Wed, 18 May 2005 10:26:00 +0000

Depends on what admin interface you use. It should be under "file manager" or something similar. If you're interface is cpanel, go to file manager from the main page, navigate to the folder you want to change by clicking on the folder icons. Then, when you've found it, click on the NAME next to the icon to set the properties (appears in top right corner normally) where you should be able to set the permissions. You can also do it through dreamweaver or whatever program you use to ftp the files to your host, though I'm not exactly sure how....

permissions

teresa — Wed, 18 May 2005 04:44:52 +0000

I was told by my host to be sure my permissions were set to 755, but where does one do that?

Sorted!

martin(rps) — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:42:36 +0000

Hi,

Sorry I took so long to get back on this...

It was pretty embarrassing really... I had been uploading into a self created cgi-bin when I should have been loading into their preset one (outside of the mainwebsite_html directory). To make matters more confusing for a newb like me, the path you give to it is an alias - not the actual path...

Anyway, thanks for your help - much appreciated!

All the best, martin

martin(rps) — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:49:22 +0000

Hi Greg,

Thanks a lot for your reply, and so quick!

I tried renaming to .pl - it didn't seem to make any difference. I can't do a shell log in unfortunately, or telnet, just ftp. I can edit the files on their own text editor though. Would that be similar enough? I guess not...

I've contacted the hosting company a few hours ago, but no reply yet.

Thanks for the advice, I'll post with any developments.

Cheers, Martin(rps)

Greg K — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:33:48 +0000

Not sure if this is something would cause the above error, but did you try renaming it to HelloWorld.pl (maybe server is configured differently of .pl extension??)

Can you do a shell login to the server, if so, log in and manually run the script. (You will need to do ./HelloWorld.cgi from the cgi-bin directory.

Also to be sure it is all ok, enter the script by hand. At a prompt, type in each line (except for the first line, get rid of the #!, just enter /usr/bin/perl to run perl. Then when you are done entering the lines, hit CTRL-D to tell perl you are done and it should execute the code.

This last way may give you more details of the error it is having.

Did you try contacting your hosting company?

-Greg