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"Urusei Machie"

This is where I post problems and questions while I work on my Language/Travel website.

Link coming soon =)

Yeah Garin seems to be very good with perl, I'm sure I'll reward him* greatly when site starts making some money. I've been planning this site for over a year now.

The favourites feature is like this one on 1up articles, where you can give a thumbs up. I would use it for my photography and artwork galleries so I can easily compile several top 10 lists. Would be nice to have it do it itself but that's asking too much and I dont mind tallying them all up :)

Sooner I get these features done the sooner I can launch. Didnt get round to fixing the favicon so I'll do that now before I tackle the poll again. Oh after I search for scripts for the comments feature.

* - and others who have helped me :) I'd pay now but I only have £400 and every penny is going to adversiting the site. Still trying to raise more though, by selling all my things :)

Hope it all comes together as you want it to Machie.

I'd offer more help if I could, but Perl *WHOOOOSH* right over my head. I'm impressed how Garin seems to know everything :) If only my little brain wasn't quite so lazy.

What type if favourites feature are you thinking off / planning?

Ah thanks for that cjh :D yes most of them are done now. Just having lots of problems with the poll. It's been giving me a headache for over half a year now >_< Garin found a good one, just trying our best to get it working then I can start altering it.

Still have to do a favourites feature and a comments feature. That's more perl stuff so I'll have a look now to see if I can find some free scripts.

Garin wrote:
> Small experiment, chmod the logs folder to 777.

Still the same unfortunatly :'( hmm I wonder where I'm going wrong.

What happened to your list? You've done it all now?

Anyway, if not, I forgot to mention you can have a style sheet aimed at printing, using <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="pstyle.css" [B]media="[I]print[/I]"[/B]> or <style type="text/css" [B]media="[I]print[/I]"[/B]>, and then using display: none; on things you want to keep out of the printed version, such as banners, side navigation, etc.

Pop-up blockers generally block automatic pop-ups, such as ones that appear as soon as you load the site. Most won't block them if you click a link, as they are considered part of the site.

The only downside is that web sites start linking their unnecessary pop-ups with legitimate site links.

Small experiment, chmod the logs folder to 777.

Doh cant post the pollnow.cgi file in here because of the 60 letter limit.

Here's the file click

Lots of "Poll Name" bits in there like from the error. The read.me file never asked me to change it to something else. So I assume I'm suppose to leave them all alone =S

Good idea, I'll give that a try.

Okay didn't work again, but it looks promising, I didnt get a 500 error.

Script Error.
View your Error Logs or activate script debugger.

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Also the log error says something different.

[Sun Nov 26 10:03:42 2006] [error] No such file or directory: /home/USERNAME/public_html/logs/pollnow1.log - Variable: $logdir + Poll Name + .log - Script: pollnow.cgi

It seems to be going on about the log files. There's 2 of them, pollnow1.log pollnow1_ip.log I've done nothing to them but add them to the /logs/ folder and 666ed them like it said. The logs folder is 755ed like all the others. Not sure whether I should be changing it.

Okay I went into the pollnow.cgi script and activated the debugger. These errors came up;

Error Message: No such file or directory
Variable: $logdir + Poll Name + .log
Path: /home/USERNAME/public_html/logs/pollnow1.log

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Taken from the read.me file

4. Setting the log file.
- Open the Log file (pollnow1.log).

- Inside the log file, you will see a series of 0.

- The first zero is the total amount of votes for the poll and the other zeros represents the
total votes for each Vote Area. Therefore, if you have 4 Vote Areas in the poll, the file
would contain 5 zeros separated by |.

Example: 3 Vote Areas => 0|0|0|0|
4 Vote Areas => 0|0|0|0|0|
5 Vote Areas => 0|0|0|0|0|0|

This I just left alone. There are 6 vote areas and looking at the log files there are 7 0s so that's alright.

Difficult to suggest anything. Given the poll displays I'd guess its failing when trying to read/write the log files. Not sure if I understood what you've done correctly or not but I'd move all data files outside of the cgi-bin. You could well be disallowed from writing to the cgi-bin and its subdirectories by the server.

In fact I'd simply suggest starting again and leaving the structure as the script originally suggests. If you can get it working, then worry about it reorganising where the files are kept if you must.

Okay it's still not working, how annoying :/

[Sun Nov 26 00:28:12 2006] [error] [client 86.128.110.113] File does not exist: /home/GGGGGG/public_html/500.shtml

[Sun Nov 26 00:28:12 2006] [error] [client 86.128.110.113] Premature end of script headers: /home/GGGGGGG/public_html/cgi-bin/poll/pollnow.cgi

I changed the permissions of the log and .cgi files. The log files in the log folder, tem files in the template folder. Images in the images folder. all the folders and .txt and .cgi files are in the poll folder (which is in the cgi-bin folder). I changed the paths in the pollnow.cgi file. I added "/poll/" to the pollnow.html file. Couldn't get it to work. Changed the file to pollnow.shtml and still nothing :S

It's a long shot but do you know what I might be doing wrong from the error? I try to follow the readme file but the guy tends to miss out things. The only real change I've done is putting it all in a /poll/ folder. So it looks more organised.