Help with a CGI Script?

[Alan]

Hiyas,

 

I have a question here, I am editing Click Manager, for my site, and I don't get one part.

 

Upload the following files in in ASCII mode.  CHMOD appropriately.

CHMOD 755 clickmanager.cgi

CHMOD 755 stats.cgi

CHMOD 666 clickmanager.txt

CHMOD 666 date.txt

CHMOD 666 total.txt

 

ok for the questions:

 

1.) How do you upload in ASCII Mode?

2.) What would the CHMOD ### Mean?

 

 

 

Thanks for your time!

[TCH-Bruce]

ok for the questions:

 

1.) How do you upload in ASCII Mode?

2.) What would the CHMOD ### Mean?

 

1. Get an FTP client. I use CuteFTP but many other are available.

 

2. CHMOD are file permission settings. The first number is for the Owner of the file, the second is the Group setting and the third is for all others.

 

With 755 the owner has full read-write-execute access, Group and other have read-execute access. These can be set simply with the FTP client.

[Guest schussat]

Hi Alan-

 

You can also change the file permissions using CPanel's file manager. When you click on a file, you can then select the permissions command in the upper right menu, and CPanel will give you a three-by-three grid of checkboxes that you can use to set permissions. There's also a helpful chmod/permissions tutorial that might come in handy.

 

-Alan

[Alan]

Hey,

 

Thanks schussat And PDABruce.

 

Yes I am using CuteFTP aswell, just didnt understand it, and wanted someone who knows what they are doing explain it to me, so I don't go messing up.

 

Thanks again schussat And PDABruce!

[TCH-Bruce]

Alan,

 

There are three button on the toolbar labeled a-01, 010 and ab

 

a-01 is auto mode and will uploade in ascii or binary depending on the extensions you have set up as being text only.

 

010 is binary mode and will force anything you upload to be put up in binary mode.

 

ab is ascii mode and will force anything you upload to be put up in ascii (or text) mode.

 

To change permissions on a file using CuteFTP highlight the file on the server and right click and select "Change file attributes". This will open a dialog with check boxes for read-write-execute for owner, group and public permissions. There is also an input box where you can just enter the numerical representation of the check boxes (attributes).

[Alan]

Hmmm, ok now, I change the permissions through the cPanel File Manager, but it doesnt change it, when I click "Change" it just goes back to 644. any hints as to what it is?

 

I also got smartFTP and dreamweaver's FTP, but I can't change them, I havnt used CGI before incase your wondering lol.

[Alan]

lol cuteFTP, is too confusing to me, I am going to stick with smartFTP untill I need Something that has more power with it.

[Alan]

YAY! lol

 

I figured it out

 

Thanks guys your help was awesome!