egrowden Posted October 20, 2002 Posted October 20, 2002 Hello, I am trying to use the 'counter' option on Cpanel. When I try to actually generate the code onscreen, that works. but when I try to save and finish, it just hangs and never finishes. How can I make it work? --Eric Quote
Ayman_ Posted October 20, 2002 Posted October 20, 2002 Hello der - I snuck in and peeked at your account. Everything was ok cept, the name of the counter. Im not sure why cpanel trys to auto name your counter but it does. I just renamed it to mycounter and BANG worked first try. Here is the HTML sniplet for you, save you a trip back to your control panel! <img src="/cgi-sys/Count.cgi?df=mycounter.dat|display=Counter|ft=6|md=5|frgb=100;139;216|dd=A"> ENJOY! Quote
egrowden Posted October 21, 2002 Author Posted October 21, 2002 Hey, know I get a "unable to open mycounter.dat" message. Do the file attributes need to be changed to allow update? Almost there, Eric Quote
rayners Posted October 21, 2002 Posted October 21, 2002 (edited) Hey, know I get a "unable to open mycounter.dat" message. Do the file attributes need to be changed to allow update? What permissions (i.e. the three numbers to the far right of the file) does mycounter.dat have? Edited October 2, 2003 by borfast Quote
egrowden Posted October 21, 2002 Author Posted October 21, 2002 I am still getting used to cpanel-- where can I check the file attributes? Quote
rayners Posted October 21, 2002 Posted October 21, 2002 (edited) I am still getting used to cpanel-- where can I check the file attributes? Just click on the File Manager link on the upper left of the CPanel page. Edited October 2, 2003 by borfast Quote
egrowden Posted October 21, 2002 Author Posted October 21, 2002 I couldn't find a 'mycounter.dat' file anywhere. So I tried creating the path referenced from my root (var/cpanel/Counters) and the file with permissions of 666. Still doesn't work. Can someone look at my site and figure out what is missing?? Quote
Ayman_ Posted October 21, 2002 Posted October 21, 2002 Fixed. I recreated a new counter for you called test Remember you dont put the .dat after the name of the counter. I also took the liberty to correct it on your index.html page. So you are Fixed. Thanks and welcome aboard! Quote
egrowden Posted October 22, 2002 Author Posted October 22, 2002 Great! Thanks for your help! I have two more questions. 1) How can I I'm impatient so I violated the Forum Guidelines: Family Members may not bump threads. up my hit counter? I want to inlcude the old hit totals. I tried using the 'commit' part of the counter generator and that doesn't work... 2) I presume my Index page needs to be in the public_html directory, right? TIA, Eric Quote
Ayman_ Posted October 22, 2002 Posted October 22, 2002 (edited) Your correct on the index.html thing. If you place anything outside of this folder it wont be viewable. Now your counter issue. You should be able to go into your control panel and click on the counter link. Then at the bottom you would: where it says counter name enter this: test (DONT ENTER .DAT) then where it say new count enter your new total That should do it. If not let me know, cause I got a special can of counter whooop *** for it! Edited October 2, 2003 by borfast Quote
egrowden Posted October 22, 2002 Author Posted October 22, 2002 (edited) I tried that. it never comes back when I click the commit button. Have to kill the IE window, in fact. I am trying to set it to 4031-- be sure to shake that can thoroughly! Edited October 2, 2003 by borfast Quote
Ayman_ Posted October 22, 2002 Posted October 22, 2002 Done! Maybe you are having issues with IE? It worked first time for me! It was that can of wooooop *** wasnt it? Quote
egrowden Posted October 22, 2002 Author Posted October 22, 2002 Yes, I must have some problem with IE6. I had better try to fix that. Thanks for the rescue!! Quote
Arta Posted October 23, 2002 Posted October 23, 2002 yes, IE6 is horrible... when my hard drive crashed a little over a month ago, i had to reinstall everything, and was able to drop back down to 5 ... i refuse to upgrade again.. LOL Quote
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