evanginc Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 I admit TOTAL ignorance. Maybe I'm in over my head. On my site, I've been using calendars that I set up with HTML. I just found a super FREE program available at www.planscalendar.com. It always alot that I've been wanting, but didn't know how to get. My problem, HOW to set it up. I've downloaded it, then opened and uploaded it to my site via FTP. I use FRONTPAGE normally to maintain my site, so doing an FTP was a learning experience. I put the upload where my site info was when I uploaded. Don't know if that was correct or not. I'm Totally lost now. Looked at their "simple" directions and it's greek to me. Any one that might offer some help, it would be appreciated, plus I want to learn. Thanks. woooot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 First be sure your are uploading to a folder in the public_html folder on your site. I followed their instructions at *http://www.planscalendar.com/index.php?p=manual I unzipped to a folder on my computer and renamed the plans_5.0 folder it created to cal. then with my ftp program running, one window in the public_html folder and the other showing the unzipped folder now called cal, I dragged the folder named cal to the public_html folder on my site and when it was done, changed the permissions as per thei instuctions *http://www.planscalendar.com/index.php?p=manual and it works *http://www.thepetscorner.com/cal/plans.cgi be sure to to goto calendar setting>edit password. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanginc Posted December 26, 2003 Author Share Posted December 26, 2003 How do you "CHANGE PERMISSIONS"? I do feel so ignorant, but I think I'm learning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 in your ftp program click on the file and right click and look for permissions not sure what ftp you are using, check the help link for your program. then follow their settings plans.cgi to 755 or as they say 2. Set permissions You will need to adjust the permissions of plans.cgi, so the server recognizes it as an executable file. The .xml files may also need permissions set so the script can modify them. The process for doing this can be different for each server, but in general, the permissions should be set as follows: The .cgi file owner group public rwx r-x r-x The .xml files owner group public rw- rw- rw- All other files owner group public rw- r-- r-- (rwx = read, write, execute) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 Be very sure you are creating the new calendar folder inside of your public_html folder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanginc Posted December 26, 2003 Author Share Posted December 26, 2003 Don, one error in my email to you was that it is a capital C on Calendar, but I get an error message now. www.troop312.com/Calendar/plans.cgi. Happy to provide you with passwords if that will help. But I do want to learn from all this. Already have learned about FTP some and setting permissions. This is good. Also, the FTP program I have is SmartFTP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 Ok for smart ftp just right click and you can change or check permissions I have plans.cgi at 755 and the xml files at 666 check that to see if that is what you have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanginc Posted December 26, 2003 Author Share Posted December 26, 2003 Have TRIPLE checked these permissions and that is correct numbers. Plus I looked at the "R-W-X" to confirm with the "plans" configuration. All agree. Did NOT change the configuration on the calendar folder itself. I have uploaded the .exe file that the was given me to upload in "asci" mode. is this correct? Put this file inside the "Calendar" file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 Problem solved by starting over with a fresh download. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanginc Posted December 27, 2003 Author Share Posted December 27, 2003 AND by not putting in the "exe" file, whereever that came from. This program is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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