Perl?

[sky123]

Hi guys, I just started using Actinic for designing a webstore. Can someone please help me with using the cgi files? I think i have to install a program called Perl but I have no idea what that is or where to get it. Any help will be gladly appreciated. Thank you.

[Jenny]

What are you trying to do? Most of the time you don't need to know but your server must have a cgi-bin with perl as a system requirement.

Jenny

[pinbrook]

if you want to be able to run actinic scripts on your pc, there are intructions in the Advanced user guide (download it from actinic site).

you need the section Appendix A: Installing a Standalone Demo on a PC

[sky123]

Thank you.

[sky123]

Hello again, in the Advanced Network Selection, it asks "Path from CGI-BIN to acatalog directory". Would I be able to get this info from my webhost or is it something I'm suppost to have. I ask because i'm having trouble sending files to my ftp.

[sky123]

When I go to the Wizard it gets up to Website Address. When I type my website into the box and press next, I get the following error ,"The wizard recieved an error while verifying the the webserver. Error sending request. By the way I don't have any website up on my ftp.

[pinbrook]

whats your URL and who is your host?

[sky123]

Thank you for the reply Jo, My webhost is M8 (www.m6.net) and my site url is www.fortunecircuit.com.

[pinbrook]

having done a Whois on your domain, its tells me you are using Microsoft-IIS/6.0 as your server type.

I can't help with Windows servers....

[sky123]

Does that mean I can't use Actinic?

[pinbrook]

no, it just means i know nothing about getting actinic on to a windows server, I only do Unix

[sky123]

Network Setup.

In the Network Setup there is a box to fill in "Path From CGI-BIN to acatalog Directory ". Can someone please explain this to me and where I can get this information from?

[Mike Hughes]

Your host should be able to tell you that. I had a look at their website but they don't appear to list the cgi-bin location location so you'll need to ask them.

Mike

[Jenny]

Most of this can be done using the wizard for setting up the network settings.

Path to perl on windows could be c:\perl\bin or something like this but your host can tell you your path for your server

Jenny