SGarrett

Auction Page is where I am testing new/bogus products just to see if I can get the hang of how to add items. I know this is a silly idea, but would it be a waste of time to try and convert one of the URL's into html format instead of htm? I am only curious, maybe it will help, who knows?

As far as My Webpage goes, the pictures all work perfectly. When it comes to inputting the url's of these pictures into my Auction Script, they don't work. They're just blank x'ed boxes every time.

Exactly my point. It is so user friendly it actually gives me a little box starting with http:// for the image location. Any image I plug in won't work. Head Bash Any ideas?

You can start at My Webpageand then follow any of the item links to a particular item. The camera pictures represent a seperate url where there is a picture stored. I am using those urls when pointing to product pictures.... Am I doing something wrong?

I just got an auction site up and running, and when I try to upload images, or point to images I have saved at various http locations, they show up as little boxes with red 'x's. I'm concerned it is because TCH dosn't support Image :: Magik - Any feedback would be very much appreciated!

Wonderful. Thank you Sir.

I am curious to know if someone could stop by My Webpage just to see if the page is up? Someone called in and said they got an error message from TCH that said roughly, "In order to view this web page, please consult with TCH....". I checked the error log, and server status and everything appeared fine. Naturally, I'm confused. If someone could check on this and let me know, that would be wonderful. I just want to know if it's a problem on my end, or the visitor end. Thanks a bunch!

>// The full system path to the files you wish to index. DO NOT include trailing slash. $file_root = "/home/user/public_html/AbbaWebPage"; // The URL equivilent of the above. DO NOT include trailing slash. $http_root = "http://abbainc.biz"; // The full system path to the index file. $index_file = "/home/user/public_html/AbbaWebPage/sitesearch/search_index.dat"; // The full system path to the file of words to exclude. $exclude_words = "/home/user/public_html/AbbaWebPage/sitesearch/exclude_words.txt"; // The full system path to the file of files to exclude. $exclude_files = "/home/user/public_html/AbbaWebPage/sitesearch/exclude_files.txt"; That is what I have changed everything to. I deleted the spaces as you suggested, but it still isn't working when I go through the set up.

Now, I'll take you to the readme page so you have an idea as to what I'm working with. At first sight, it looks so ridiculously easy. That is why I am so puzzled about these problems I am having. PHP ReadMe Step one can be skipped, so I did. Step two I think is where the problems are occurring. (And I have no idea why.) I put the entire web site into a file that is located at c:\Abba Web Page And, I put the script I downloaded for this searcher into a directory called searchsite under public_html. Perhaps I am missing something mundane, but if you wouldn't mind, could someone please point out the obvious to me? Here's the operative lines of my code, which I altered after reading the readme. >// Variables // Set your username and password. Leave blank if you don't want any protection. $user = "UserName"; $pass = "Password"; // The full system path to the files you wish to index. DO NOT include trailing slash. $file_root = "c:\Abba Web Page"; // The URL equivilent of the above. DO NOT include trailing slash. $http_root = "http://abbainc.biz"; // The full system path to the index file. $index_file = "c:\Abba Web Page\sitesearch\search_index.dat"; // The full system path to the file of words to exclude. $exclude_words = "c:\Abba Web Page\sitesearch\exclude_words.txt"; // The full system path to the file of files to exclude. $exclude_files = "c:\Abba Web Page\sitesearch\exclude_files.txt"; I'm up for any and all ideas. And it could be that I simply misunderstood the directions... if so, please point that out. Thanks!

Ladies and gentleman... It just so turns out I am not cursed. I actually managed to get a PHP script to work. Thanks for all of the help everyone! TCH is so helpful!

Uh oh! (An excerpt from my Error Log) [2003-06-02 13:16:38]: error: file has no execute permission: (/home/sgarrett/public_html/perl/GID-contact.cgi) I didn't even think of that... But- I have FTP Commander, and I don't think it allows me to set permissions. Any ideas?

Since FormMail was disabled I have been looking for some replacements. I chose a Perl script, which was beyond simple to use, but I am still getting a 500 Internal Server Error. I'm not exactly sure what is going on. I tried moving the location of the cgi file into a directory called "perl". I'm not quite sure where to go from here. Any ideas?

I have tried out some PHP scripts while FormMail is being revised, and it's funny, but I always get a 500 Internal Service Error... I have tried not putting the operative files in the cgi-bin and everything... I must be losing it.

Is there anything that is still down that we should be aware of? I know there were some issues with formmail and what not, I was only curious since I haven't heard or seen any updates.

surefire was very helpful in attempts to get his script to work, but we could never quite get it to operate the way we wanted it. I suppose I will have to wait until FormMail is fixed.

I thought by using the Form Mail that TCH offers, that I would be good to go. Perhaps one of the Guru's will glance over my coding and spot an issue. I'm only concerned because it was working propely not long ago... But thanks for your assistance anyways surefire!

I am told that the location of Form Mail is: http://abbainc.biz/cgi-sys/FormMail.cgi So, I made that my action. Here are the operative lines of code for my form. <form method="post" action="http://abbainc.biz/cgi-sys/FormMail.cgi" name="mail"> <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://www.abbainc.biz/thanksbid.htm"> <input type=hidden name="recipient" value="bids@abbainc.biz"> <input type=hidden name="required" value="name, name2, email"> When FormMail was taken down for revisions, and put back up, I tested and it worked successfully. And now- it won't work again. Which is why I was thinking the server issues are again related to this problem.

When I do a test run of my forms, I get this error: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@abbainc.biz and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.abbainc.biz Port 80 Is this something that I have dont wrong in my scripting or is this due to the server issues we have right now? Thanks!

Upon further tests, it looks like this one just won't work... I tried all of the suggestions. For now, I think I'll follow surefire's leads to a web site with other options.

Okay... the // infront of the redirect worked. And I know with my luck I should cash in while I'm ahead, -but, I give an important piece of info on my redirect page. Is there any way at all to customize that? Atleast to add a 'Home' link or anything?

I must be confused. Hehe, would you please point out the lines that I need to speficically change? I'm having a second Monday that is worse than the last... Heh. Thanks! Okay- I think I got you now. One second, let me give it a whirl.

It's odd- even when I open up Dreamweaver to look at my 'register.php' file, it automatically shows the same error in the viewing frame. It's as if right off the bat something is incorrect. I am looking for an obvious errors, but in such a small area to modify, I can't find anything. Wait a second- I just tried it, and it worked. Well, I recieved the information in my e-mail, but I still saw that error page when I submitted the form. I wonder if it does that to everyone- or just me. If anyone has a second, I'd very much appreciate a quick test. The url is www.abbainc.biz and then click on "Register", you can just use one letter for all of the fields except the email, you can make that up. If you get redirected, and no errors- then it may just be myself that is experiencing the problem.

For some reason, I cannot get surefire's script to work. If anyone out there knows of a quick, and easy form mail script- please let me know. I need a quick fix until everything settles down. Thanks!

surefire- I hope you get back soon. I am still left with the same questions. If you could let me know what I should try- that would be great. Thanks so much.

Thanks!