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help with free links, base_dir

Anonymous — GMT

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?

Carbonize — GMT

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.

Anonymous — GMT

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

Anonymous — GMT

also its home not hom, sorry about that

Carbonize — GMT

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 [b][/b]. 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.

itpilot — GMT

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

Anonymous — GMT

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

Carbonize — GMT

[quote="Anonymous"]hmmm... well im using notepad and have it se ascii[/quote]
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?

Anonymous — GMT

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