Guestbook 1.5 (not advanced) --- base directory problem

Guestbook 1.5 (not advanced) --- base directory problem

I installed Guestbook 1.5. However, I get this message:

Cannot create ID file guest_id.txt in /guestbook/book. Please check your base directory.

First off, I do not even know what a base directory is. I did find out that in the guestbook.pl file, there is this one line that has something to do with this:

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

Please help as I am urgently trying to put together a site.

hi Andras,
usually it is home/www/usr(your ftp username)/guestbook/book
let me know by email if you need more help...
Tjobbe

tjobbe.andrews@btinternet.com

well thanks for your help, but it didnt work... i am contacting my webhost to see if the base directory is different than the one you wrote me.... also, after the error all this data comes up... to see please visit http://www.bestswimming.net/guestbook/book/addentry.html then enter some info and you'll see the error.... thanks!