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No matter how many times I have tried to get this board running I keep getting an Internal Server Error. I have checked and rechecked and triple checked everything. I uploaded what needed to be in ASCII in ASCII and what needed to be in Binary in Binary. I have checked all CHMODS. Checked the path to Perl. Everything is good. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
Any help would be greatly appricated.
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A link to your CP would help.

Maybe your webhost doesn't allow custom CGI scripts to be run...

The error you are getting HAS TO BE caused by one of the following items:

1. Some files were not truly uploaded in ASCII. Upload all cgi and variables files in ASCII. DO NOT use auto-detect mode in your FTP software, you MUST force ASCII only. If you're using CuteFTP, please re-upload the cgi files and variables files with WS_FTP.

2. The path to Perl in the cgi files is not set to the correct location of Perl 5.

3. File or directory permissions are not set correctly.

To eliminate the permission issue, please run a DirInfo from WS_FTP on your www directory and on the contents of your cgi directory and post the results as a reply to this thread.

drwxr-xr-x 3 u0142268 user 1024 Feb 25 02:54 cgi-bin
drwxrwxrwx 3 u0142268 user 2048 Feb 22 01:55 ubb


I was using CuteFTP. I now have WSFTP and I re-uploaded the files and get the error.

BTW.. Thanks for you help. You guys are awesome.

Please run a DirInfo on the contents of the cgi-bin and post the results here.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 2637 Feb 26 00:04 Date.pl
drwxrwxrwx 2 u0142268 user 512 Feb 26 00:07 Members
-rwxrwxrwx 1 u0142268 user 559 Feb 26 00:08 Styles.file
-rwxrwxrwx 1 u0142268 user 2799 Feb 26 00:08 UltBB.setup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 21900 Feb 26 00:06 Ultimate.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 32234 Feb 26 00:02 announce.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 53147 Feb 26 00:03 archive.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 57687 Feb 26 00:03 cpanel.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 87976 Feb 26 00:03 cpanel2.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 70875 Feb 26 00:03 cpanel3.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 55237 Feb 26 00:04 cpanel4.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 62518 Feb 26 00:04 edit.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 40378 Feb 26 00:04 forumdisplay.cgi
-rwxrwxrwx 1 u0142268 user 639 Feb 26 00:08 forums.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 213 Feb 26 00:27 hello.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 4195 Feb 26 00:04 mail-lib.pl
-rwxrwxrwx 1 u0142268 user 200 Feb 26 00:08 mods.file
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 85047 Feb 26 00:05 postings.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 25289 Feb 26 00:05 register_lib.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 53086 Feb 26 00:05 search.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 57098 Feb 26 00:05 ubb_library.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 64832 Feb 26 00:05 ubb_library2.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 29455 Feb 26 00:28 ubb_test.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 47793 Feb 26 00:06 ubbmail.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u0142268 user 84394 Feb 26 00:06 ubbmisc.cgi

Sorry about the first one. I didn't understand.

Thanks for you help.

The permissions above look fine.

Have you checked to see if your host has any kind of cgiwrap enabled. You may also want to verify directly with a person at your host what the correct path to Perl 5 is. Some hosts I have found change settings and don't update their support pages.

Short of that, the easiest approach will be to have Infopop FTP to your site and dig around for the problem.

To start such a process will require you to complete a support ticket via the Customer Support link in the left-side menu of this page.

actually i discoverede a similar error installing the UBB on a linus machine.

In quite a lot of the .cgi files you will see an occurrence of

print ("content type: html/text/n/n");

on the machine in question, this caused en internal server error message when trying to run the script.

If you manually edit the line, and removes the () (but remember to keep a space after the final ") the server will be able to run the script.

at least it's worth a try.

-Regards
Cip

I just installed UBB and was getting the Internal Error. Checking the apache log turned up perl errors, Unexpected end of script. I had to run dos2unix on all the UBB files to get it to work on my RedHat server.

I guess UBB is a Windows shop :-)

Golden.
Web Hosting @ Hostasaurus.Com

No, UBB specifically requires you to use -a swicth if you unzip directly on the unix machine <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Nice of them to mention that in the installation documentation ;-)

Instruction No. 1 for Unix