I Hate Dada

[TCH-Thomas]

1) I set all stuff in config.pm

2) I uploaded dada directory in cgi-bin and renamed it from dada to DADA from a recommendation and placed mail.cgi where it should be.

3) I created a dada_files outside my public_html as I understand I should do from dada instructions.

4) I set all permissions as they are supposed to be according to dada intructions.

5) I go to www.marveassistans.se/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi and I get a 404.

 

What am I doing wrong? <_>

[TCH-Andy]

I just had a quick look on the server, and the files aren't there - are you sure you upload them to the right account? Or have you continued working on it and deleted the files....

[TCH-Thomas]

I deleted them to restart when I figure out what I did wrong.

Also deleted them so I would do no harm to server, thinking about those files outside public_html.

Edited October 12, 2004 by Jikrantz

[newhorizonz]

If you renamed a directory to DADA from dada then you probably need to call DADA in the address call.

 

I have found that when calling anything in the cgi-bin it IS case-sensitive

 

Hope that helps

[TCH-Thomas]

I tried that. <_>

[TCH-Don]

I just used the installation page

http://mojo.skazat.com/installation/

and followed step by step.

 

And the file

public_html/cgi-bin/dada/DADA/config.pm

should have the following changed to suite

$PROGRAM_ROOT_PASSWORD = 'your pass word for dadamail';

$FILES = '/home/cpanelname/dada_files';

$PROGRAM_URL ='http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi';

 

and

Chmod 755 the mail.cgi scrip

 

and chmod the folder

/home/cpanelname/dada_files to 777

[TCH-Thomas]

Thats exactly what I did as per emailed instructions from you a while ago and unfortunately it still doesnt work. <_>

But on the other hand, I havent been successfull with much for the last days. <_>

[TCH-Don]

One thing to watch out for is your ftp program may change the case of a folder

that happened to me, it changed DADA to Dada

I then found a setting in the ftp program to leave the case alone.

[TCH-Thomas]

Looked out for that too unfortunately, Don, but thanks for coming with suggestions. <_>

[TCH-Don]

I am not giving up, we will get this.

[TCH-Thomas]

Thanks, you are doing it for Jessica. By that I am not saying I will implement same solution my own site. <_>

[TCH-Thomas]

The script works now.

I understood the instructions wrong and had placed the mail.cgi in wrong folder.

However now I have a new problem with another script...

>Warning: main(cpanelname/phpnews/headlines.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/cpanelname/public_html/uppdat.html on line 82

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'cpanelname/phpnews/headlines.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/cpanelname/public_html/uppdat.html on line 82

 

Any clues whats wrong with this one?

Edited October 13, 2004 by Jikrantz

[TCH-Andy]

Looks like the link is slightly wrong - it should be /home/cpanelname/public_html/phpnews/headlines.php not cpanelname/phpnews/headlines.php I think.

Edited October 13, 2004 by TCH-Andy

[TCH-Thomas]

That one worked better.

Thanks Andy

[TCH-Thomas]

Does anyone know if its possible to make Dadas opt-in emails etc speak swedish instead of english in some easy way?

I visited the Dada-forum and it looks like its a major job to do it. Is it?

[borfast]

Thomas, I only used Dada mail once for a couple of hours, to try it out but if I recall correctly, you have to change the language inside the PERL files and yes, it's quite some work

[TCH-Thomas]

I figured I have too.

Its weird that they have alternatives for thank you and goodbye pages but not for this in my opinion.

[Pocketman]

The script works now.

I understood the instructions wrong and had placed the mail.cgi in wrong folder.

 

I am having the exact same experience as described in this thread. I thought I followed the instructions.

 

$FILES = '/home/mysitename/dada_files';

$MAILPROG = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';

$PROGRAM_URL ='http://www.mydomain.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi';

 

I upload the DADA folder and all contents - ASCII

Set permissions as instructed

Do not see any apparent upper-lower case discrepancies

 

When accessing mail.cgi I receive a 404 error.

 

Having perused several threads with this same question, I am

[Pocketman]

These are error messages I am receiving:

 

Premature end of script headers: /home/gbulrpdh/public_html/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi

File does not exist: /home/gbulrpdh/public_html/www.inssar.org/favicon.ico

 

favicon.ico exists, but it's up a couple levels in the directory tree.

It appears I have a configuration issue.

 

Is Dada Mail that much better than Mail Man?

[borfast]

Pocketman, I never used Dada mail extensively, but I belive they serve different purposes. Dada Mail is more geared towards announcements mailing-lists (i.e., the mailing list owner sends e-mail messages to everyone on the list but list members can't send messages to each other). Mailman on the other hamd is a fully-featured mailing-list software, allowing everyone to participate in the discussions. Imagine these forums but instead of you having to visit the forums via your browser, you'd receive all new posts and post your messages via e-mail.

 

Someone correct me if I'm wrong about Dada if but I think that's pretty much it.

 

Hope it helps

[Pocketman]

Raul - You may have helped much more than three days' worth of reading and attempting to get Dada Mail working. Dada Mail may not be the solution I'm looking for. Perhaps my time would be better spent configuring Mail Man.

 

Thank you.

[borfast]

No problem

 

Just in case you haven't seen it yet, cPanel has Mailman installed for you, so there's no need to go through the nightmare of setting it up yourself, just create the mailing lists, configure their options and you're all set

[kmdini]

Seems this post went around about a year and half ago, but I'm coming into these problems now, too. Any help is much appreciated.

 

I've gone over these posts:

http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...showtopic=13520

http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...installing+dada

http://mojo.skazat.com/installation/

 

and come up with a server error 500 on a nice dada mail/welcome to dada mail screen.

 

As with Thomas I did the config.pm thing, I uploaded DADA and mail.cgi into dada (which in turn is in the cgi-bin directory) (which in turn is in the public_html dir). I set the permissions as I believe they stated they should be.

 

Also, I checked case-sensitivities and found everything to be as they should. I also renamed dada_files to dadafiles after Stephanie's problems.

 

I'm using version 2.10.7. Any other help/suggestions would be most appreciated. Thx! -KD

[kmdini]

Ok. Forget it. I fixed it - it was the ASCII thing. I also just assumed that SmartFTP would default correctly.

 

So, in summation, the way to fix any computing problem, is to go nuts for hours trying to fix something, then post on a message board, then several minutes later figure it out by method of epiphany, or at least do something that was already suggested.

 

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the forums kmdini

 

Yep that works

 

Glad you have it working.

[TCH-Andy]

works every time

 

Welcome to the forums kmdini

[kmdini]

Ah, thanks for the welcome!

 

Umm, so I've run into the next problem as is the course of things like this. Maybe it's because I'm distracting myself with Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the background. I'm not willing to fix that, however.

 

So, here's the next situation:

I set up a list. When asked to type in a password or create a new list it goes to a server error 500. The Error FAQ suggests chmodding "dadafiles" to 777. It does not fix the problem, however. I'm not going through the advanced setup so I haven't altered any other files.

 

Any help is again appreciated.

[TCH-Andy]

was it an ASCII / binary issue again on some of the other files you uploaded?

[kmdini]

hmm, good thought. Let me check....

[TCH-Thomas]

Welcome to the forum, kmdini.

 

Yes, installing Dada can be tricky, but a nice script when installed.

[kmdini]

nope, that wasn't it. Hmm...

 

well, maybe - I might have done parts of it one way and other parts the binary way. I'll try to redo the whole thing again, but I"m going to have to take a break for a while.

 

Thanks for the help!

Edited April 2, 2006 by kmdini

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums kmdini

 

Let us know how it goes

[kmdini]

Ok. A step away from the comp and a complete reinstall with special attention to the ASCII stuff, the dadafile with no underscore, and all permissions worked.

 

Likely, it was as you say - that the ASCII installations were not consistent throughout. I hadn't even heard of binary vs ascii ftp stuff until today.

 

Thanks for the help!

[TCH-Bruce]

Glad you got it sorted out

[TCH-Don]

Good job, I hope you made notes

[TCH-Rob]

Welcome to the forums. Nice to see you got it going.

[slobjones]

Dada wants a path to "sendmail" and suggests it's located below a "usr" folder, as noted in the setup instructions:

 

/usr/sbin/sendmail

 

or:

 

/usr/lib/sendmail

 

I can find neither "usr" nor "sendmail" in my directory tree. Where are they located?

 

Thanks.

[TCH-Tim]

The correct path is /usr/sbin/sendmail. That is in relation to root on the server, so you are correct, you can't see them in your directory tree, which is /home/cpanelUsername.