[cmfink02]

I've just recently (well, yesterday) learned how to install cgi scripts. Some of them are very easy, but others aren't. I'm having trouble with the open journal installation. I've followed all of the instructions, but it's still not working. i get the following error:

CGI ERROR
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Error Message : unable to open directory in auth_cleanup: /home/httpd/cgi-bin/oj/ojauth. Reason: No such file or directory
Script Location : /home/sites/site9/web/cgi-bin/oj.cgi
Perl Version : 5.00503
Setup File : default.cfg

Form Variables
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pw :
userid :

Environment Variables
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DOCUMENT_ROOT : /home/sites/site9/web
GATEWAY_INTERFACE : CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT : */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us
HTTP_CONNECTION : Keep-Alive
HTTP_HOST : candice.csidns.com
HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; MSNIA; Windows 98)
PATH : /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
PATH_INFO : /cgi-bin/oj.cgi
PATH_TRANSLATED : /home/sites/site9/web/cgi-bin/oj.cgi
QUERY_STRING :
REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URI : http://candice.csidns.com/cgi-bin/oj.cgi
REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URL : /cgi-bin/oj.cgi
REDIRECT_STATUS : 200
REDIRECT_UNIQUE_ID : O2arONCbRYUAABikltA
REDIRECT_URL : /cgi-bin/oj.cgi
REMOTE_ADDR : 63.22.8.166
REMOTE_PORT : 2012
REQUEST_METHOD : GET
REQUEST_URI : /cgi-bin/oj.cgi
SCRIPT_FILENAME : /usr/cgiwrap/cgiwrap
SCRIPT_NAME : /cgi-bin/oj.cgi
SCRIPT_URI : http://candice.csidns.com/cgi-bin/oj.cgi
SCRIPT_URL : /cgi-bin/oj.cgi
SERVER_ADMIN : admin
SERVER_NAME : candice.csidns.com
SERVER_PORT : 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL : HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SIGNATURE :
SERVER_SOFTWARE : Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.2b
UNIQUE_ID : O2arONCbRYUAABikltA

I have no Idea what is wrong. I've changed things that I knew to change, but on others I have no idea. Example:

# Path to your Web site's main HTML directory (where the oj subdirectory is;
# no trailing slash):

$mydir = "/home/httpd/html";

# Complete path to your cgi-bin directory (no trailing slash):

$progdir = "/home/httpd/cgi-bin/oj";

what is to go as the location? I know I may sound stupid, but I really have no idea. i think that my be why it's not working, or at least just a reason.

Anyway, if you could help then I'd much appreciate it.

Thanks,
Candice

[DocJohn]

Okay, to answer your last question first, your paths should look something like:

$mydir = "/home/sites/site9/web";

$progdir = "/home/sites/site9/web/cgi-bin/";

As to your first question, it's a matter of creating a subdirectory in your cgi-bin directory called ojauth. After you create this directory, set permissions on it (you can do this through your FTP program) to "777" (CHMOD 777 ojauth). (Your Web server should be configured correctly to prevent viewing of this directory from a Web browser, so 777 should be okay.)

Hope this helps,
John