Changing CGI-BIN

[Sparky]

Hi guys,

The location of my CGI scripts is the CGI directory. A long while ago when I was having problems I accidently changed the settings to CGI-BIN.
I have recently refreshed the website and although all my settings in advanced=> Network settings are all set to CGI, all the scripts seem to reference CGI-BIN in them.

Are there other settings somewhere that need to be changed?
Or do we have to delve deeper into the program?

Cheers
Mark

[Nadeem]

Hi Mark

Not really, it should pick them up from "Advance | Network Setup". However there are some developers who hardcode the links into the template, maybe this is what happening with you. If you go to "Design | Option | Layout", click on "Edit" for "Default Product Layout". Here see if you have any reference to "CGI-Bin".

Kind Regards

[Sparky]

Hi Nadeem,

Thanks for the reply. I have checked in the design options, and there appears to be no reference to the cgi location at all.
If i manually changed all of the references of cgi-bin to cgi in the pl and pm files will that be sufficient?

Mark

[Nadeem]

Hi Mark,

That may not work, what is your website url please? I just want to check something.

Kind Regards

[Sparky]

Hi Nadeem,

You are quite correct it did not work. I went and changed the references to cgi instead of cgi-bin. Refreshed website, checked and all of the referneces have changed back to cgi-bin.

My website is www.kave.co.uk/acatalog

cheers
Mark

[Nadeem]

Hi Mark

I see now your links have cgi in them, instead of cgi-bin. One thing to check as well, is the permission of the cgi script, put them as 755 if you are using a linux server.

Kind Regards

[Sparky]

All of the permissions were set to 664, I have changed them to 755 and they still don't work.
I changed the various settings in the .pl and .pm files from

push (@INC, "cgi-bin");

to

push (@INC, "cgi");

Will this make any difference. My CGI directory has always been cgi not cgi-bin.
Help!
Mark

[Nadeem]

Hi Mark

Yes you could try this. See if that works, if that still fails, then might i suggest in opening a ticket with support on: http://www.actinic.co.uk/support/register.htm
Get them to have a look at your snapshot and ftp server. It may need investigation.

Kind Regards

[Sparky]

I have tried changeing those settings to no avail.
I registered a support query last week, and have not had a reply back since Friday morning.

Thanks anyway,
Mark

[Nadeem]

Hi Mark

Really, please advise on what your ticket number so i can chase this up for you

Kind Regards

[Sparky]

Nadeem,

Moments after I recieved your email I had an email back from support.
Anyway after a phone call to my host and a few tests later the answer from them was to change the path to perl from:

/usr/bin/perl

to the following:

/usr/bin/perl -w

Apparently the -w is a error reporting switch, but I don't care because for the first time in ages it all seems to work without any errors!
Thanks for your help and in case anyone has the same errors I thought I would help by showing my solution.

Cheers
Mark

[Nadeem]

Hi Mark

That okay, glad to see it was sorted out. Hmm the -w switch simply means turns off warning i believe. Anyway glad to see it working now.

Kind Regards