perl script for guestbook, need help

[shifeng]

Hi, I need some help with the perl script I've installed to run a guestbook.

I've checked and everything on the script is fine. I've followed the instructions of the setup but i still get an error when i click the send button. It will come up with a 404 error. Please help.

my URL is http://shifeng.exofire.net

Thanks lots.

[Corey]

Moved to site management.

[Derek]

Do you have a link to it?

[shifeng]

yes. my guestbook link is http://shifeng.exofire.net/guestbook/guestbook.html

the script is placed in /home/shifeng/public_html/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl

[DefecTalisman]

looks fine.
Is the path to perl right?
Is permissions set to 755?
Is there any undefined vars in your script?
Maybe the script requiers a module not installed on the server?
check ciroc's perl modules:
http://www.defectalisman.exofire.net...s/check_mod.pl

The only other thing I can think of is something directly wrong in the script, such as wrong syntax or a "or die stament that is doing exactly that".

I got around this by creating a sub for the script to die.
eg:

#!usr/bin/perl

sub error;

print $var or &error(01, "error message here");

sub error {
 my ($no, $msg) = @_;
 print "This script has a error number $no.\n The message for the error is this: $msg\n";
}

Worked for me. Put it next to everything that is suspect and it will tell you where it is having problems.

[shifeng]

i have no experience with scripting really. I don't know anything about scripting. could you help me? maybe i could email u the file?

[DefecTalisman]

By all means I can help you, not via e-mail though.

How many files is it and how many lines of code are there?

If its small enough put it inside a code tag.
eg:

[code]
The script here.
[/code]


else change the extension to *.txt and upload it to your account and then link me to it.

[shifeng]

It's a pretty long script. Here is the link.

http://www.mediafire.com/?bm0utoxjlxt

thank u very much. I've uploaded the file there.

[DefecTalisman]

uhm... I dont want to download it.

Its 12.5kb. That cant be more than 100 lines code or so.

Copy and paste all the text from the script into a text file and upload it to your public_html and then give me a link to it.
eg:
http://www.defectalisman.exofire.net/examples/test.txt

[shifeng]

http://shifeng.exofire.net/guestbook.txt