OK for about 3 days now i have been trying to install perldesk. I have uploaded all the cgi files in ascii and all the pics in binary. Im using the correct path(or atleast i think i am) /home/altera/public_html/perldesk/cgi-bin.
i have all the permissions right, 755 for cgi files and 777 for template files. Does anyone have any idea what is going wrong?

PS: All the proper modules are installed

Thanks, Dan

What kind of errors are you getting? Have you looked in your webserver error log for any messages?

Frank

oops sorry, im not getting any errors but, it wont do anything when i try to log on. it goes to ....../admin.cgi?do=main
and just displays a blank page.

I had the exact same symptom. I believe some of the files in the distribution were in DOS format, and others in Unix format. So, simply uploading every single source in ASCII format actually corrupted some files.

Go through all the source files with UltraEdit or something similar and do Unix-to-DOS conversions and briefly check to see that everything looks right ... then save every single file. There was even one source with two extraneous characters in the code. they were in column 1, so stood out like sore thumbs.

Keep trying, you'll get it working!

Thanks! To much work on that one thought. Im just going to do it from unix and transfer it to the server. Thanks for the help thought.