Hi all Real beginners questions these ! I just put my first site online yesterday http://www.anmaco.f2s.com and the visitors book doesn't work. I can't read to or write without a server error message. The support from the site managers have given me a check list but I don't know how to do some of the things on it - can you help? I designed the site on a Windows system with Dreamweaver (is this relevant)? Here are the appropriate bits from the checklist : Has the execute bit been set on the Perl file? HOW? Ensure the script and the directory the script is in are not writable by others - AGAIN - HOW? Has your base path been set correctly? The base path given is /web/sites/162/anmaco/www.anmaco.f2s.com but I don't know where to use it? My scripts are in my cgi-bin right inside my site directory. I feel I am missing some vital point here. It also suggests I might try to chmod 755, but again I don't know how. What a dunce! Thanks for any help you can give me! Just in case it helps here is my coding, which works just fine on my XITAMI server on my local disk! Sorry about the French/English mix. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

# Ouvrir le fichier
$i=0;
if (open (FICHIER, "<gbook.txt") != false)
{
#  flock (FICHIER, 1);              # verrouille en lecture
  $max=0;
  while (<FICHIER>)
  {
    push(@Lignes,$_);
    $max++;
  }
#  flock (FICHIER, 8);              # déverrouille
  close (FICHIER);

# Sortie vers le navigateur :
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<html_fin;
<HTML>
<HEAD>
     <TITLE>Visitor's Book</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" background="../Backgrounds/parch2.jpg">
<img src="../Pictures/ourvisitorsbook2.jpg" width="758" height="231">
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS, Arial" size="+2" color="#
+652C16">Here are the messages we have received</font></p>
<p> </p>
html_fin

  for ($i=0; $i<$max; $i+=6)
  {
    $time = @Lignes[$i+0];
    $PNom = @Lignes[$i+1];
    $NomFam = @Lignes[$i+2];
    $email = @Lignes[$i+3];
    $subject = @Lignes[$i+4];
    $body = @Lignes[$i+5];

    print "<B>", $PNom, " ", $NomFam,
      "</B> (<B><A HREF=\"mailto:",
      $email, "\">", $email, "</A></B>)<BR><BR>\n";
    print "wrote on <B>", $time,
      "</B> on the subject <B>", $subject, "</B>:<BR><BR>\n";
    print "<I>", $body, "</I><HR>\n";
  }

print <<html_fin;
<p align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS, Arial" color="#652C16">"I
+f you would like, you can also <a href="../Drop_us_a_line.htm">write 
+a message</a> in our Visitor's Book, or <a href="../Index.htm">go bac
+k</a> to the Homepage.</font>
</p>
<p> </p>
<p align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS, Arial" color="#652C16"><i
+><font size="+1"><b><u>Have fun!</u></b<</font></i></font></p>
<p>  </p>
</BODY>
</HTML>
html_fin
}
else      # erreur fichier
{
print <<html_fin;
<HTML>
<HEAD>
     <TITLE>Erreur</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>

<B>Impossible to read the Visitor's Book</B> <P>

Please
<A HREF="../index.html">go back</A> to the Homepage. <P>

<I><B>Have fun!</B></I>

</BODY>
</HTML>
html_fin
}
exit;

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AND 
#!/usr/bin/perl

# Exploiter les variables d'environnement :

if($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'GET')
{
  $Data = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}
}
else
{
  read(STDIN, $Data, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'})
}

$i=0;
@ChampsFormulaire = split(/&/, $Data);
foreach $Champ (@ChampsFormulaire)
{
  ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $Champ);
  $value =~ tr/+/ /;
  $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
  $value =~ s/<!--(.|\n)*-->//g;
  $value =~ s/\n/<BR>/g;         # transformer Newline en <BR>
  $Formulaire[$i] = $name;
  $i = $i + 1;
  $Formulaire[$i] = $value;
  $i = $i + 1;
}

# Extraire date et heure
$ValActu = time();
$HeureActu = localtime($ValActu);

# ouvre le fichier pour l'adjonction
if (open (FICHIER, ">>gbook.txt") != false)
{
#  flock (FICHIER, 2);              # verouille en écriture
  print FICHIER "$HeureActu\n";
  for ($i=0; $i<=$#Formulaire; $i=$i+2)
  {
    print FICHIER $Formulaire[$i+1], "\n";
  }
#  flock (FICHIER, 8);              # déverrouille
  close (FICHIER);

# Sortie vers le navigateur :
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print <<html_fin;
<HTML>
<HEAD>
     <TITLE>Merci</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>

<B>Thank you for adding to my Visitor's Book.</B> <P>

You can now ' 
<A HREF="read_lo.pl">read</A> your message, and all the others... or
<A HREF="../index.html">return</A> to my Homepage. <P>

<I><B>Have fun !</B></I>

</BODY>
</HTML>
html_fin
}
else      # erreur fichier
{
# Sortie vers le navigateur :
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print <<html_fin;
<HTML>
<HEAD>
     <TITLE>Erreur</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>

<B>Impossible to write in the Visitor's Book</B> <P>

You can
<A HREF="../index.html">return</A> to my Homepage. <P>

<I><B>Have fun !</B></I>

</BODY>
</HTML>
html_fin
}
exit;

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