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Anonymous



Hi, everyone. I'm trying to install guestbook 1.5 to my website ( www.jianster.com ). But im having a hard time understanding the url/base directory addressess. I'm very confused with the directory that my host gave me... they are:
Perl/CGI

Perl location:
#!/usr/bin/perl
(perl is version 5.61)

Sendmail location:
/usr/lib/sendmail

Path to home directory /document root:
/hsphere/local/home/ftpusername/yourdomain.com

Path to cgi-bin directory:
/hsphere/local/home/ftpusername/yourdomain.com/cgi-bin
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Where should i put these address in order to run the guestbook?
Is the path to cgi-bin directory www.jianster.com/cgi-bin or the one that the host provides?

Please help me out... Im really lost with the installation. Thank you very much.
JTD
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Joined: 08/05/2004 21:52:50
Messages: 529
Location: Arkansas
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You need to put them under your public_html folder. And you do realize that GB 1.5 is very old. The new version is now 2.3.1 Plus you will need to install a database.

LINK-> Use Lazarus Guestbook
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Anonymous



Okay..
whenever i try to sign my yearbook, it says

Guestbook - Error
Cannot create ID file guest_id.txt in /jianster.com/book. Please check your base directory.

how do i solve this problem?

thank you.
Fgm
Newbie

Joined: 19/07/2004 13:57:28
Messages: 1
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If you are absolutely sure your base directory path is correct then you probably have not assigned permissions correctly. I had the same problem and the following fixed it: Change permissions on the following files to 777 guest_id.txt
guestbook.html
page_id.txt
template.html

Make sure permissions for the guestbook.pl file is set to 755
If your paths are correct it should work
Good Luck
 
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