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dgessler
December 28th, 2000, 11:08
I am installing a guestbook script from bignosebird.com. I thought I installed everything OK, but when i tested out the cgi script (http://www.threesixteen.org/cgi-bin/bnbbook.cgi) it gave me an error message

"Unable to write to your guestbook file
Please check the permissions on /home/threesix/public_html/gbook.html"

And that is the right path to my home directory (the host is digitalspace.net). I chmodded all files corectly (777 for the cgi file). Does anyone have any ideas? The site is for our church's youth group. Can someone help me?

PROBLEM SOLVED! it turns out i was retarded and the problem was really with the html file, i just didnt examine the errer message too carefuly

[Edited by dgessler on 12-28-2000 at 12:26 PM]

Technics
December 28th, 2000, 11:15
Try chmoding to 755 ...

dgessler
December 28th, 2000, 11:21
755 is what i meant

Technics
December 28th, 2000, 11:29
Move your guestbook to here and chmod the directory to 755 and see if that works.

/home/threesix/public_html/gbook/gbook.html

dgessler
December 28th, 2000, 12:09
i figuredout the problem, i needed to chmod the gbook.html file to 666. it works perfect now, thanks for the help