help with free links, base_dir

Ive read about ten different topics on this forum about what to put under the $base_dir in the links.pl file but none of them have worked. I get an error that says "Cannot create ID file links_id.txt in hom/twistedretrospectproductions/links. Please check your base directory."
sooooo...what should i do?

Check the persmissions on the folder hom/twistedretrospectproductions/links. Off the top of my head I would say they need to be 766 but that may be wrong.

i tried that and i also tried 777, still got the same error

also its home not hom, sorry about that

Are you sure you have the full path right? One way to get the full path is to use an include to a none existant file such as <?php include('fake.txt'); ?>. Put that in a html file and give it a .php extension. Call the file from your host and php wil give you the full path to the file that called the fake file.

I had the very same problems, found out that my ftp software was sending binary instead of ascii, despite the fact at ascii was configure in the ftp program.

I used notepad. exe to be sure I got ascii code, and ftp'd that fixed all the problem.

JE

hmmm... well im using notepad and have it se ascii

Anonymous wrote:hmmm... well im using notepad and have it se ascii

Yes notepad saves it as an ascii file but is your FTP program saving it to the server as an ascii file or converting it to a binary file?

yes thats what i meant when i said it set to ascii, sorry i didnt spell right