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Message started by annetappe on 12/08/05 at 17:09:12

Title: New Install - Bad File Descriptor
Post by annetappe on 12/08/05 at 17:09:12

Please point me in the direction to find the cause of this error.

I have used EveryAuction before and want to move to your program so I am fairly familar with set up but I am no way expert.

For testing I moved subdirectory to web accessible area to eliminate any problems = www.DomainName.com/cgibin/auction/. Then set up subdirectories auction/closed, auction/userreg, auction/auction_pics and ckmod 777 for now. I modified eConfig161.pl to correspond to the host server parameters.

I followed everything within instructions but I receive this error msg:

[Bad File Descriptor]

Could someone direct me to the location of problem - which I am sure is something simple and stupid I have done.

Thanks

Title: Re: New Install - Bad File Descriptor
Post by Dieter Werner on 12/09/05 at 09:42:08

Let me see the config modifications ...

Title: Re: New Install - Bad File Descriptor
Post by annetappe on 12/09/05 at 15:34:50

Thanks.
Info requested:

A. Location on host server: www.domainname/cgibin/eAuction161/
program: eAuction.pl
subdir: /auction_pics (2 gifs), /closed, /userreg

B. Running under this .htaccess located in [ /cgibin ]
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html
AddHandler server-parsed .html .htm
AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi

C. Config section 1-2 of eConfig161.pl located in [ /eAuction161 ]

#-#############################################
# Config-Section-01
#-#############################################

# The name of your servers cgi-bin directory
$config{'cgi_dir'} = 'cgibin'; # Default for most servers

# The cgi-bin subdirectory where your eAuction.pl will be stored
$config{'auction_dir'} = 'eAuction161';

# The Path to a 'NON-WEBACCESSABLE' directory of your system
# Maybe you have to chmode it if you use your own setting

$config{'get_path'} = 0; # Set this from 1 to 0 if you want to use your own setting
$config{'basepath'} = '=/u/web/sbectr';

***I tried setting 'basepath' and 'mailprog' manually and using code - same error = bad descriptor.
***I have verified permissions for subdir and files

Thanks for your help.

Title: Re: New Install - Bad File Descriptor
Post by Dieter Werner on 12/09/05 at 16:51:30

Seems like your server doesn't allow to create directories above the web directory.
Try this ...
Code:

$config{'get_path'} = 0; # Set this from 1 to 0 if you want to use your own setting
$config{'basepath'} = '/u/web/sbectr/cgibin/eAuction161/auction_data';

but before you start the script, you have to create the folder 'auction_data' by hand.

BTW ...
$config{'basepath'} = '=/u/web/sbectr';
can't work! (see the double '=')

Title: Re: New Install - Bad File Descriptor
Post by annetappe on 12/09/05 at 18:30:09

Another great success story for everyone to see how responsive you are and how they should be using your $$$product!

I knew it had to be something 'stupid' I did. I really did look it all over more than 10 times and missed the error I created.

It was the: '=/u/web/sbectr';

Thank you so much.