Messages posted by: DoubleUK

Tobbe wrote:Hi there!
Please anyone help me with this anoying problem!
I problems with my guestbook on my homepage!
It says "Cannot create ID file guest_id.txt in http://helsing.no-ip.com/book. Please check your base directory."
when i try to write something.. what can it be?? I run win 2000 server, and IIS.
Please someone help me!!!!

/Tobbe

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!

Jonathan wrote:Hello...
Okay... the same ol' problem for the zillionth time... When I click the "Sign Book" button, the resulting page gets that same old error code
"Cannot create ID file guest_id.txt in /book. Please check your base directory." I chmoded 777, 755, and 666 both the file and the directory "book".... Nothing.... It's getting pretty annoying, because i'm sure it's just a little thing I'm looking over....

Any suggestions, or help would be most appreciated!

Regards, Jon
imalgen@imalgen1000.org

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!

Gary wrote:I'm gettin this message error can anyone help me resolve the conflict. I'm trying to set up guestbook 1.5

GUESTBOOK 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!

kamarade wrote:Hi everybody,

I have just install GB V1.5 but encountered trouble.

"Guestbook - Error : Cannot create ID file: guest_id.txt."
I am on XP with Apache/Perl and work perfectly.
I have also set the directory /guestbook/boot Read/Write.

HELP PLEASE.

Kamarade

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!

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!