I have been watching the threads and I am convinced(sp?) that there is something wrong with the installation docs for the freeware UBB. I have followed them "TO THE LETTER", without any success. This is getting very frustrating. I am using WS-FTP-LE to transfer the files to the site.
The site is http://games.calweb.com/
the cgi folder is right after that and so is the ubb folder. The permissions are exactly what they are supposed to be(per the docs on web site)
Your assistance would be greatly appreciated. I can send you the folder list(s) from notepad if you wish.Heck I would be happy to...
Thanks from the heart!! I really want to get this to work as I am very impressed as to the features that the commercial version has and I want to get this going so I can "iron out the bugz" so when I get the Pro. version , I can do it without problems.

Thanks again

Here is the list of permissions.... I hope I got it all

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Permissions for cgi-bin http://games.calweb.com/cgi-bin/

drwxr-xr-x 4096 Oct 27 00:49 cgi-bin

Permissions for files within cgi-bin folder

-rwxr-xr-x 2764 Oct 27 00:47 Date.pl
drwxrwxrwx 4096 Oct 27 00:50 Members
-rwxrwxrwx 581 Oct 27 00:49 Styles.file
-rwxrwxrwx 2568 Oct 27 00:49 UltBB.setup
-rwxr-xr-x 23657 Oct 27 00:47 Ultimate.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 16350 Oct 27 00:47 cpanel.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 54295 Oct 27 00:47 cpanel2.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 13378 Oct 27 00:47 cpanel3.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 10496 Oct 27 00:47 forumdisplay.cgi
-rwxrwxrwx 549 Oct 27 00:49 forums.cgi
-rwxrwxrwx 210 Oct 27 00:49 mods.file
-rwxr-xr-x 26335 Oct 27 00:47 postings.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 27148 Oct 27 00:47 ubb_library.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 15831 Oct 27 00:47 ubb_library2.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 22165 Oct 27 00:47 ubbmisc.cgi

Permissions for files within /cgi-bin/Members/folder

-rwxrwxrwx 76 Oct 27 00:50 Admin5.cgi


Permissions for /ubb/ folder http://games.calweb.com/ubb/

drwxrwxrwx 4096 Oct 27 00:52 ubb

Permissions for files within /ubb/ folder

-rwxrwxrwx 953 Oct 27 00:52 announce.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 11301 Oct 27 00:52 bbtitle.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 9761 Oct 27 00:52 bbtitle5.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 82 Oct 27 00:52 closed.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 3919 Oct 27 00:52 controlpanel.html
-rwxrwxrwx 749 Oct 27 00:52 cp.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1987 Oct 27 01:02 cplinks.html
-rwxrwxrwx 88 Oct 27 00:52 down.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 119 Oct 27 00:52 email.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 2899 Oct 27 00:52 faq.html
-rwxrwxrwx 3433 Oct 27 00:52 forumterms.html
-rwxrwxrwx 0 Oct 27 00:52 index.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1595 Oct 27 00:52 infopoplogo.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 96 Oct 27 00:52 mailto.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 927 Oct 27 00:52 off.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 997 Oct 27 00:52 on.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 86 Oct 27 00:52 open.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 79 Oct 27 00:52 posticon.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 79 Oct 27 00:52 posticonnew.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 1502 Oct 27 00:52 postreply.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1817 Oct 27 00:52 posttopic.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 110 Oct 27 00:52 profile.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 4554 Oct 27 00:52 quickstart.html
-rwxrwxrwx 2233 Oct 27 00:52 reply5.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 68 Oct 27 00:52 tline.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 79 Oct 27 00:52 tline3.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 1993 Oct 27 00:52 topic5.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 2565 Oct 27 00:52 u2.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 3217 Oct 27 00:52 ubb_logo.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 4694 Oct 27 00:52 ubbcode.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1406 Oct 27 00:52 ubbfavicon.ico

You're gonna have to help us. what is the error messag you are receiving, and more important, what is the url to your control panel? The url's listed above give DNS errors

--mark

[This message has been edited by Mark Badolato (edited 10-27-2000).]

the url for the CP... http://www.games.calweb.com/ubb/cp.html

And the place for the edit of the url has no www. with the www I get a 404 file not found, and without I get the "Page can not be displayed.

Any further info will be gladly provided.

Based on your URL above I'm assuming your web host is http://www.calweb.com I checked their site and see no mention of cgi support. But they also don't mention that they don't support cgi. Have you checked with them to see if the support 3rd party cgi scripts, and support them running from a directory called cgi-bin? If they do support cgi, make sure they have it activated for your account as some hosts turn it on and off by user.

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Doug
darksaber.hispeed.com
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

[This message has been edited by SWFan (edited 10-27-2000).]

Yes the host is Calweb.com and yes CGI is supported and the perl IS in /usr/bin. Everything seems to be correct but once I try to attempt to access the General Setup in the Control Panel.... from there nothing works... I really want to get this working so I can show the company that it would worth while to purchase the licensed version and then I can really get the forums going. There are lots of users that want to get involved but until it is working, I am up the proverbial creek.

Well, quite frankly Calweb's FAQ's are lacking. It looks like they are making some changes to their servers based on reading the FAQ. Also, per their instructions at http://www.calweb.com/www-com/web.html I think your url does not conform to how they say your page s/b setup.

I think your problem is not with UBB but with the configuration of the Calweb servers. Are there any members only areas that have some better faqs for cgi that you could share with us.

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Doug
darksaber.hispeed.com
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

A good place to start is with the two hello scripts in your help folder that came with the UBB zip.

Make these run first and then you'll know cgi is enabled. Chmod them 755, make sure the top line is correct, upload them in ASCII and then call the scripts from your browser.

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Michael Farris
OpenTopic Product Manager + UBB Enthusiast