Cgi Error

[Faulkds]

Hi,

When I go to view the basket on my website I get the following error message.

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.

Does anybody know why this is caused and how to fix it?

[Nadeem]

Hi Darren,

This error is from the server, have you moved server recently? Have you checked with the hosting company if anything has changed?

Kind Regards

[NormanRouxel]

If this is http://4-motorcycles.co.uk/ then it seem ok from here.

Could you have some firewall changes on your viewing PC?

[Faulkds]

This is a new site that im testing....

www.motouk.net

I have checked with the server company and they say it isnt their issue. (would you expect them to say anything else)

Gary is helping me go through the code. I have the CGI part working now, our links to basket and checkout were hard coded. Changed these and everything seems ok. However, when your in the basket or checkout page, when you click on a menu link like home or maintenance (these are the only sections working at the moment) it doesnt find the page. It looks like its trying to find the pages within the cgi bin. ARARRRRRHHHHH

[Nadeem]

Hi there

How have these menu been setup, if they have a href link which simply says 'home.html' then it will try to find this html file within the cgi-bin folder. As when you checking out or viewing cart, you are running a script. So i would check this first.

Kind Regards

[Faulkds]

So how should they be set up?

Hard coded url?

If you do that then it means you cant preview your site.
When you would click on a link it would try and direct you to that url e.g www.motouk.net/acatalog/maintenance.html

[Nadeem]

Hi Darren,

For customised navigation, then yes I would hard code the urls. Yes that is true you cannot preview the site, but not hardcoding them will give you the problem as described above. When you go to the checkout pages, it looks into the cgi-bin.
For previewing, you could go into the section on the bulk page, rather than using the navigation.

Kind Regards

[Faulkds]

Ok, I will try that....

I didn't want to do it that way because Actinic prompts you when you go to upload with a warning saying that it shouldnt be done like that.

[Mike Hughes]

I'm not sure if it's related or not, but usually actinic uses a <basehref...> statement that tells the browser what the base reference is for relative links. i.e. normally 'www.yourdomain.something/acatalog/

have you got these in your pages?

Mike