Perl setting for Easily hosting

[megheath]

Hello there,

We're trying to run Actinic LE on an Easily Linux account. We've studied and copied others threads but keep coming un-stuck on the Perl Installation.

Easily suggest #!/usr/bin/perl-- and in another thread we've seen that /usr/bin/perl works. Sadly neither do for us and we get the following message every time:

'The wizard needs to know where Perl is installed on the web server and what extension Perl scripts must have in order to execute on the remote server. You may need to contact your ISP to gather this information. Be sure to specify the "." on the extension if it is required. For example, ".cgi", or ".pl".'

In the past we've successfully set up Actinic on Fasthosts and Demon, but this is driving us bonkers.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Meg

[leehack]

Have you made any changes to the html or the CSS file?

If your hosts are struggling to know where it is, it will probably be a shot in the dark if it can be solved on here to be honest. I would send them the checklist of basic requirements for actinic to work on their servers and see what they say. I have not heard of them before, you might be better off trying to use a proven host as there are many hosts who do not work with actinic.

[megheath]

Thanks for your reply, I can shed some more light on this.

We're using fetch to modify the file permissions. If I set the cgi bin and all files in there including cp000001.pl and ts000001.pl to 750 or 755 then run the test through Actinic it works fine.

However, if I go back into fetch and look again at the file permissions of cp000001.pl and ts000001.pl Actinic has changed them to 644 during the test and thereafter it will not work....that is until I change them back to 750 or 755 in Fetch.

Should I just crack on and build some actual pages and try to load these up, or is there a way I can get the file permission sto stay at 750 or 755 in the relevant files?

Thanks again,


Meg

[wjcampbe]

Actinic requires 755 on the cgi-bin files, so it may be your host that is changing them to 644 rather than Actinic.

[RuralWeb]

Actinic has changed them to 644

Actinic will not do this

[leehack]

Meg

Get your money back and go for a proven host, it will save you so much hassle it's untrue, over the years there have literally been hundreds of people trying to get a hosting account working, only to give up after a few days.

Save yourself the stress and go for a proven one, it's just not worth the hassle and time with what hosting costs nowadays.

[TraceyHand]

there is someone on the forum using Easily for hosting for an Actinic site but I can't recall who now!
They must have mentioned it on the forum so perhaps a search will find it?
Maybe they can help