Cgi-bin Url

[Michaela Lusted]

I am finally ready to upload my new website (quite urgently as I have advertising out as we speak!) and have problems when trying to enter my CGI-BIN URL on the Network Setup Wizard.

I am a real beginner so am pretty blind to what I'm doing and wonder if anyone can help ... my ISP is Active24.

I thought my URL was www.rainydaysnsundays.com/CGI_BIN/ but this, or any other versions of, give the following error messages :

The specified CGI-BIN or the path to the CGI-BIN is not correct. Check the
CGI-BIN URL and try again. If the CGI-BIN is correct, return to the first
page of the wizard and turn on the button to confirm each setting. Then progress through the dialogs once again and verify that the path to the CGI-BIN is also correct. The web server returned (404) Not Found.

Not confident enough to do anything !!
Any help gratefully received.

[wjcampbe]

Use Web | Configure Web Site Details with the button ticked - this will show you a graphic of your web layout for you to choose the cgi-bin folder location.

[Michaela Lusted]

Hi Bill

Thanks for your help. I managed to find the right folder location, it's the CGI-BIN URL that I can't seem to get right.

[wjcampbe]

The wizard should write the correct URL into your settings when you select the folder.

Can you post your current settings here (with usernames/passwords removed) and tell us who your host is and whether you are on windows or linux. Usually someone on here knows the 'secret' to getting each host right.

[Michaela Lusted]

Am trying to solve this myself but with little luck (and help from Active24!)

Have tried searching previous threads for help or other users with similar problems with Active24.

Can anyone advise how to proceed and how I check my permissions?

Thanks in advance

[Michaela Lusted]

Hi
The host is Active24 and it's Windows.
the current settings are :

HTTPPROXYMODE 0
HTTPPROXYADDRESS
HTTPPROXYPORT 80
HTTPPROXYUSER
HTTPPROXYPASSWORD
FTPPROXYMODE 0
FTPPROXYADDRESS
FTPPROXYPORT 21
FTPPROXYUSER
FTPPROXYPASSWORD
SCRIPTID 100024
SCRIPTEXT .pl
SMTPHOST
WEBSITEURL www.rainydaysnsundays.com
IGNOREPASSIVEERRORS true
USERELATIVECGIURLS false
PATHTOPERL /usr/bin/perl
USEENHANCEFTP false
FTPCLIENTTIMEOUT 15000
FTPRETRYDELAY 3000
FTPSILENT false
FTPMAXRETRIES 3
FTPCONNECTTIMEOUT 25000
SMTPAUTHREQUIRED false
SMTPUSERNAME
SMTPPASSWORD
CATALOGURL http://trials.actinic.com/trials/trial21141/
CGIBINURL http://trials.actinic.com/cgi-bin/
PATHFROMCGITOCATALOG <path>/acatalog/
CODEBASE http://trials.actinic.com/codebase/
FTPHOST
FTPUSERNAME
FTPPASSWORD
PATHTOCGIBIN cgi-bin
USEPASSIVEFTP false
FTPPATHFROMCGITOCATALOG

Think this may relate to my trial site though ?

The wizard puts in http://rainydaysnsundays.com/cgi-bin/

Looking at my control panel in Active 24 I think it might be
http://rainydaysnsundays.com/CGI_BIN/ but this or the wizard version or any others seem to work!!!

Thanks again to anyone who can enlighten me!

[wjcampbe]

Try changing these
CATALOGURL http://rainydaysnsundays.com/acatalog/
CGIBINURL http://rainydaysnsundays.com/cgi-bin/
PATHFROMCGITOCATALOG ../acatalog/
CODEBASE ./


If that does not work, then we'll have to wait for someone who knows Active24.

[Michaela Lusted]

Thanks Bill but still no joy.

Hopefully there may be someone who's had a similar experience with Active 24 before.

[wjcampbe]

You could try a pm to the people in this thread who seem to have got Active24 working, though not sure any of them are on windows.
http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=15081&highlight=Active24

[bwalton]

Hi

One of out sites is with active24 (vi-net) but I think its on linux are settings are

HTTPPROXYMODE 0
HTTPPROXYADDRESS
HTTPPROXYPORT 80
HTTPPROXYUSER
HTTPPROXYPASSWORD
FTPPROXYMODE 0
FTPPROXYADDRESS
FTPPROXYPORT 21
FTPPROXYUSER
FTPPROXYPASSWORD
SCRIPTID 1
SCRIPTEXT .pl
SMTPHOST mxhost-1.vi.net
WEBSITEURL http://www.chancellor.co.uk
IGNOREPASSIVEERRORS true
USERELATIVECGIURLS false
PATHTOPERL /usr/bin/perl
USEENHANCEFTP false
FTPCLIENTTIMEOUT 5000
FTPRETRYDELAY 3000
FTPSILENT false
FTPMAXRETRIES 3
FTPCONNECTTIMEOUT 15000
SMTPAUTHREQUIRED false
SMTPUSERNAME
SMTPPASSWORD
CATALOGURL http://www.chancellor.co.uk/acatalog/
CGIBINURL http://www.chancellor.co.uk/cgi-bin/
PATHFROMCGITOCATALOG ../htdocs/acatalog/
CODEBASE ./
FTPHOST www.chancellor.co.uk
FTPUSERNAME
FTPPASSWORD
PATHTOCGIBIN /cgi-bin/
USEPASSIVEFTP false
FTPPATHFROMCGITOCATALOG

not sure if it helps

Brian

[Michaela Lusted]

Thanks Brian,
The main difference seems to be the location of your cgi directory,
i.e. /cgi-bin/ mine seems to be /CGI_BIN/

I get this error message
Actinic received a bad method error from the web server. The server is not properly configured to allow Actinic to run CGI scripts from the cgi-bin. Run Web | Configure Web Site Details... to review your web site configuration.

Will have to keep trying
Not sure how to change permissions though, as this may be the problem

[wjcampbe]

On a windows host you will need to ask the hosting company to make the changes for you.

[Michaela Lusted]

Thanks Bill for all your help.
Spoke to Actinic Support yesterday who have given me the required settings which I've forwarded to Active24 ... still waiting though!
Hopefully will be up and running soon