[opheliana]

Hopefully somebody can help me here - I've done everything it said in the installation guide/readmes, etc but I'm still getting this error. Try here to see what I mean:
http://www.opheliana.net/cgi-bin/dreamer/oj.cgi
I've installed scripts before but I'm still no where near being experienced at this kind of thing......
Thanks in advance for any help!

[evil_jimi]

opheliana ... I'm like you, in that I've installed and configured scripts before but I'm no expert at it. The only thing I can suggest is you check the addresses you used in the config file, then change all the permissions to 755...even the ones that John says should be set to 777. Good luck.

[opheliana]

Thanks for your reply! I checked the .cfg file and found a few trailing slashes that managed to creep in (ooops!).
Now I can get to the 'create new user' page but when I click on submit it comes up with an error saying:
"unable to open: /home/www/ophelian/cgi-bin/dreamer/ojaccess.db"

It says permission was denied but this file doesn't even exist among the oj folders? I didn't even know I was supposed to download this file! Help anyone?

[evil_jimi]

opheliana ... the ojaccess.db file is created for you by the auth.pl script after you create your first login. It sounds as though the file can't be created, which in turn sounds as though you need to check the permissions on the /ojauth directory in your cgi-bin. Make sure that one is set to at least 755 (rwxr-xr-x) ... while you're there, also check the permissions on the /ojtemplates directory and then the directory for the index files etc (in my case it's /openjournal and /openjournal/story). Good luck.

Oh and re the ojaccess.db file: if you ever forget a password or something, you can FTP in and edit that file or delete it and start afresh. I don't know what that would do to any existing journal files, so be sure to back them up first.

[Excessor]

I cannot get this to work, so I can evaluate Open Journal. I have checked and re-checked all permissions many times, I have double checked done everything in the oj.cfg as stated etc.
When called in the browser I get this error also and it is as if the /ojauth directory isn't there (when in fact it is) & path is correct in the oj.cfg all permissions have been set in all possible 777 & 755 ways
I'm lost... ca't get it to work, I think I would like Open Journal if I could figure out what is going on here...

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[DocJohn]

Can you post the part of your config file that has your paths in it? Thanks,
John

[Excessor]

I keep getting the error that the /ojauth doesn't exist.
I hope it is in the right place, my cgi-bin dir...
in there I have the dir /ojauth (that it won't recognise) and the oj.cfg & auth.pl and ojaccess.db are not in a dir of their own but are the only files residing loosely in the cgi-bin dir itself. Then there is the /oj dir that is over in my /htdocs dir.

Here are the paths-I left the script comments out.

$mydir = "/htdocs/oj";

$progdir = "/cgi-bin";

$ojdir = "/oj";

$cgi_url = "http://www.go-county.com/cgi-bin/oj.cgi";

$baseurl = "http://www.go-county.com";

$auth_dir = "$progdir/ojauth";
$tplt_dir = "$progdir/ojtemplates";

$auth_pw_file = "$progdir/ojaccess.db";

Thanks for the help.

We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge. Anonymous

Either write things worth reading about, or do things worth writing about.
Benjamin Franklin
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[ritschi]

Hi!
the paths should look something like this:
$mydir="/PhysicalPathToTheWebserver/htdocs";
$progdir="/PhysicalPathToTheWebserver/htdocs/cgi-bin";
$ojdir="/oj";
$cgi_url="/cgi-bin/oj.cgi";
$base_url="http://www.SERVERNAME.com";
This way it worked for me...
Please take care of the correct owner of the files, if you are working on Unix/Linux

JR

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