guestbook 1.5 error

I cannot post on my guestbook.

How would I correct this error:
Cannot create ID file guest_id.txt in /home/usr/you/book. Please check your base directory.

Also, once I've signed into the admin page, I don't know what to do on it. where can I find instructions on how to use it? thanks!

Never seen verion 1.5 but I'm guessing it has a config file with it. You set the base url in there. I believe what it is saying though is that you have not changed the permissions on the folder to allow the script to write to it.

onegirl wrote:I cannot post on my guestbook. How would I correct this error:
Cannot create ID file guest_id.txt in /home/usr/you/book. Please check your base directory.

It took me a zillion corrections to find the correct url path until I hit the right one.

Look on the page (where the error-message is) for: DOCUMENT_ROOT

• Copy the path that follows on DOCUMENT_ROOT
• Open the 'guestbook.pl'-file in a texteditor.
• go to the part that says:

# base directory to all guestbook files from the server root without trailing "/"
$base_dir = "/home/usr/you/book";

• Paste the aforementioned path and put it before the '/book' part.
• Upload it to your server in the cgi-bin folder (don't forget to change it's mode to '755')
• Cross your fingers and see how it works.

Good luck!