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Message started by Anorhc on 09/24/05 at 07:27:25

Title: No such file or directory?
Post by Anorhc on 09/24/05 at 07:27:25

I've followed the installation istructions to the best of my abilities, but this is the resulting error message that stems from it:

Error
/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/eAuction161
No such file or directory

YOUR SET UP IS NOT CORRECT

I did not modify the config file in any way because I wanted the script to find it itself.

I am currently running it on Windows XP Home Edition. I can not chmod the directory or files because everytime I tried through an FTP program, they get reset back to 666. I believe that Windows XP Home Edition does not support chmod, and I suspect that this may be the problem. Please help.

Title: Re: No such file or directory?
Post by Dieter Werner on 09/24/05 at 15:37:24

Yes, you are right - windows systems don't know anything about chmod, so you have to set the access rights by using your windows tools.

I mentioned a lot of times that the script has been developed and tested under Win XP.

No hard feelings please - but the forum can't be the place to teach you in using/handling your windows system.

Please, read your manuals and try again ...

Title: Re: No such file or directory?
Post by Anorhc on 09/25/05 at 08:05:22

Thank you for the very quick and concise reply.

Yes, I am aware that it has been developed and tested under Windows XP. If you don't mind me asking, is it developed under XP Pro, or XP Home? I'm pretty curious. ;D

Title: Re: No such file or directory?
Post by Dieter Werner on 09/25/05 at 14:29:18

Doesn't matter ...
it even could be win98.

The only things you have to do are:
- setup your server
- install Perl
- install eAuction

Title: Re: No such file or directory?
Post by takehold on 09/25/05 at 16:40:51

A little note. If you have XP home you might as well have 98 because they both the same - not good.

XP Pro has default protection you need to remove in order to make it into any kind of server.

2cents,
Takehold!

Title: Re: No such file or directory?
Post by Dieter Werner on 09/25/05 at 17:44:50

Right ...
but I don't know any ISP that uses XP as server software.

Using XP (or any other OS) for testing scripts 'local' - that's ok.

Title: Re: No such file or directory?
Post by Zeekdragon on 09/26/05 at 16:18:59

Anorhc are you using XP Pro or XP home?

Title: Re: No such file or directory?
Post by Dieter Werner on 09/26/05 at 16:48:52

Zeekdragon wrote:

Anorhc are you using XP Pro or XP home?

In order to test my programs, I use:

- Win 98
- Win XP home
- Win XP prof
- Win NT
- Win2k
- different Linux distributions

by using:
1. different machines of my network
2. VMware with a special (highly powered) machine

Edit:
see 'sub get _path'
it would have been very much shorter if I would have coded it only for Linux systems ;)

Title: Re: No such file or directory?
Post by Anorhc on 09/27/05 at 05:54:37

Zeekdragon wrote:

Anorhc are you using XP Pro or XP home?

I am using Home.

Dieter Werner, again, thank you for the very quick response. I apologize for not checking back sooner. I've managed to get it to work, but it only works when I moved the files to my htdocs folder instead of my cgi-bin folder. I will continue to investigate. It seems that it might have something to do with my conf file. But besides that, everything seems to be working correctly.

Title: Re: No such file or directory?
Post by Anorhc on 09/27/05 at 06:16:48

Ah ha! I figured it out.

I changed this line:
$config{'cgi_dir'}= 'cgi-bin'; # Default for most servers

to this:
$config{'cgi_dir'}= ''; # Default for most servers

in the config file.

Kinda weird. I must've setup my server is some odd way. Do you think something will go wrong having it setup this way? Would this consider to be unsecure?

Title: Re: No such file or directory?
Post by Dieter Werner on 09/27/05 at 10:33:36

Yes, it is insecure because everybody can read your data files.