uploading my site

[Endeavour]

Trying to upload a testsite to the server....but
Got problems in test (advanced network setup) saying "your catalog URL appears to be invallid. The files uploaded to the given "path from cgi-bin to acatalog directory" can not be downloaded via the browser on the given catalog URL. These two access routes don't point to the same destination on the server.

Server details:
catalog URL: http://www.kindersongs.nl/HTML/acatalog
cgi-bin url: http://www.kindersongs.nl/cgi-bin
codebase: ./
Path from cgi-bin to acatalog directory: ../HTML/acatalog

FTP details:
server host: www.kindersongs.nl
path to cgi-bin: cgi-bin/
path from cgi-bin to acatalog: ../HTML/acatalog

path to perl shell: /usr/bin/perl

I tried to upload all the files to the server using the option 'send files'
The files are on the server and I can view some pages.
But the shop does not work.

Then I tried (stil a novice) to refresh the site. Got error message: 'an error occurred while merging files on the remote site. The website index has been corrupted. Catalog is unable to update the index. Copy ../HTML/acatalog/fulltext.fil to ../HTML/acatalog/oldtext.fil failed.
Permission denied. Please refresh site.'
I manually copied fulltext.fil to a file called oldtext.fil: no result....

Feels like I'm not doing the right thing. What am I doing wrong?
Please help me out.

Kim

[wjcampbe]

From here it looks as though the catalog url is ..songs.nl/acatalog/ but the permissions on that folder have not been changed to 777

Try using the Web | Configure Web Site Details and see if you can get the settings right with that.

[I-CC]

I would suggest that..

http://www.kindersongs.nl/HTML/acatalog

is incorrect and should be...

http://www.kindersongs.nl/acatalog/

with the HTMl (I believe) being as seen by the FTP server, so your folders when looking at it using an FTP application might be..

/yourdomain/HTML/acatalog/
/yourdomain/HTML/cgi-bin/

With HTML being the start (root) of the public visible area and not an area that is shown in the URL for the website.

Make sure you have an acatalog and cgi-bin folder in the /HTML/ folder created using an FTP client, and then do the web | confugure to see how you get on, but think the HTML is throwing you off course here.

[Endeavour]

I changed chmod from acatalog to 777 an that worked.
Didn't change the HTML en the network settings accept it and run.
thanks anyway for the response.
I will have my eyes on the HTML directory.....