.
Access
logs
"I can't find
my access log!"
They
are in your home directory, this is the directory you are in when you first
log on.
.
Error
logs
"I can't find
my error log!"
We don't
keep error logs for performance reasons.
.
Cgi-bin
scripts
"Where do I
put my cgi-bin scripts?"
Put them
in the subdirectory cgi-bin which should be under your www directory.
.
Perl
scripts
"I am being
told - file not found"
"I am being
told - No such file or directory"
Upload your
Perl script in ascii mode, not binary mode.
Sometimes it
seems like this is asked about once a day, so we're going to repeat it,
loudly:
UPLOAD YOUR
PERL SCRIPT IN ASCII MODE, NOT BINARY MODE!
"I get errors
such as
.
Literal
@sdfsdf now requires backslash at ./test.rob line 2, within string
Execution
of ./test.rob aborted due to compilation errors."
.
Place a "\"
before such offending @ characters. This is an incompatibility between
Perl 5 and Perl 4.
Alternatively
you could change the first line in your Perl program from #!/usr/bin/perl
to #!/usr/bin/perl5
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Anonymous ftp
"Where should
I store files for anonymous ftp access?"
Put files in
the directory named anonftp. This will allow a file to be accessed by a
customer with ftp://yourdomain.com/pub/file.
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Setting permissions
"Hey, how do
I stop people who are not in my group from reading a directory?"
Type chmod
o-r directory while you are in the directory above it.
"I don't
care if people in my group can read my directory, but I don't want them
to write in it!"
Type chmod
g-w directory while you are in the directory above it.
"Who is
in my group?"
In general,
each domain has its own group. If you find you are in the group users,
let us know if you wish for your domain to have its own group.
"Tell me
more about permissions, they sound neat!"
To list the
access permissions of a file or directory, type ls -ls *. r=read
access, x=execute access, w=write access. The first three letters apply
to you, the second three letters apply to your group, the last three letters
apply to everyone else. Execute access enables you to run programs or enter
directories.
Examples of
using chmod:
.
PEOPLE
PERMISSIONS
u = the file's user (or owner)
r = read access
g = the file's group
x = execute access
o = others
w = write access
a = the user, the group, and others.
chmod a+w = let everyone write to the file
chmod go-r = don't let people in the file's group or others to read
the file
chmod g+x = let people in the file's group execute the file
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Post not implemented
"I am getting
the message 'POST not implemented'. Help!"
You probably
are using the wrong reference for cgi-email. Use the reference "/cgi-bin/cgiemail/mail.txt"
Another possibility is that you are pointing to a cgi-bin script that you
have not put in your cgi-bin directory.
Another possibility
is that you have not asked us to activate your cgi-bin directory.
In general
this message really means that the web server is not recognizing the cgi-bin
script you are calling as a program, it thinks it is a regular text file.
.
Don't have permission
to access /
This error message
means that you are missing your index.html file.
Note that files
that start with a "." are hidden files. To see them, type ls -al.
If you wish
to ftp this file in, go to the /home/oceania directory assuming your userid
is oceania. |
