[fern2000]

I am trying to run the open project in a Unix OS, but i am having an error can you help me???.

CGI ERROR
==========================================
Error Message : unable to open directory in auth_cleanup: /home/httpd/cgi-bin/oj/ojauth. Reason: No such file or directory
Script Location : /opt2/colonus/httpd/cgi-bin/oj.cgi
Perl Version : 5.006001
Setup File : default.cfg

Form Variables
-------------------------------------------
pw :
userid :

Environment Variables
-------------------------------------------
DOCUMENT_ROOT : /opt2/colonus/httpd/htdocs/
GATEWAY_INTERFACE : CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT : image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en,x-ns1wHGTUsudQSY,x-ns2U3mvPib0_d9
HTTP_CLIENT_IP : 200.11.211.25
HTTP_CONNECTION : keep-alive
HTTP_HOST : colonus.com
HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
HTTP_VIA : 1.0 cssjcprx06.netsetter.com, 1.0 cssjcche03 (NetCache NetApp/5.1D3), 1.1 cssjcche02 (NetCache NetApp/5.1D3)
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 10.101.1.115, 10.101.1.32
PATH : /usr/sbin:/usr/bin
QUERY_STRING :
REMOTE_ADDR : 216.34.56.12
REMOTE_PORT : 43026
REQUEST_METHOD : GET
REQUEST_URI : /cgi-bin/oj.cgi
SCRIPT_FILENAME : /opt2/colonus/httpd/cgi-bin/oj.cgi
SCRIPT_NAME : /cgi-bin/oj.cgi
SERVER_ADMIN : webmaster@colonus.com
SERVER_NAME : www.colonus.com
SERVER_PORT : 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL : HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SIGNATURE :
SERVER_SOFTWARE : Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) PHP/3.0.11 FrontPage/4.0.4.3
TZ : US/Eastern

thank you

[DocJohn]

Your $progdir variable in oj.cfg is apparently set wrong. It should probably be:

/opt2/colonus/httpd/cgi-bin

not:

/home/httpd/cgi-bin

[bluecrack]

I am having a similar problem. I am only knew to this whole cgi script thing, so this question may be really stpid, but i need the help

I have organised the folders like they are illustrated on the front page of the openjournal page, and when i run the oj.cgi script the follwoing message is what i get.......
can you please suggest some possible problems, that i could fix

-------what i get when i run the script--------------
CGI ERROR
==========================================
Error Message : unable to open directory in auth_cleanup: /home/httpd/cgi-bin/oj/ojauth. Reason: No such file or directory
Perl Version : 5.00404
Setup File : default.cfg

Form Variables
-------------------------------------------
pw :
userid :

Environment Variables
-------------------------------------------
CONTENT_LENGTH :
GATEWAY_INTERFACE : CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT : text/xml, application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, text/html;q=0.9, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif;q=0.2, text/plain;q=0.8, text/css, */*;q=0.1
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET : ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip,deflate,compress,identity
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us
HTTP_CONNECTION :
HTTP_COOKIE :
HTTP_HOST : bos-cgi-int.tripod.com
HTTP_PRAGMA :
HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1
QUERY_STRING :
REMOTE_ADDR : 10.10.17.75
REMOTE_HOST : 10.10.17.75
REMOTE_USER : -
REQUEST_METHOD : GET
REQUEST_URI : /idrinkmymilk/cgi-bin/oj.cgi
SCRIPT_NAME : /idrinkmymilk/cgi-bin/oj.cgi
SERVER_ADMIN : rnd@tripod.com
SERVER_NAME : cgi.tripod.com
SERVER_PORT : 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL : HTTP/1.0
TZ : US/Eastern
---------------end of what i get when i run the cgi script-----
please help?

[DocJohn]

Unless your HTML/CGI-BIN home directory is the script's default:

/home/httpd/cgi-bin/oj/ojauth

then it is likely you haven't customized the script's directory structure as you need to do for it to work properly.

You do this in the oj.cfg file by looking for the $progdir variable and setting that to wherever your OpenJournal script resides.

You also have to ensure that the Web server can write to this sub directory, so that's the changing permissions part.

This directory tracks the user who is currently logged in and ensures they are a valid user and haven't "timed out" for security purposes.

John