Hi all

I was using hostforweb.com to host a website, I have now moved it to my home server.

I was using perl cgi as a database to hold names and links

the code for the cgi is

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI qw(:all);

print header;



dbmopen(%h, "linksdata", 0644) || die "Cannot open: $!";
foreach ( sort keys %h ) {
print ' <font color="#0000FF" size="5">', "$_", '</font> <br> <table width="600" border="0">', "$h{$_}\n", '</table>';
print "<br><br>";
}
dbmclose(%h);

the cgi runs, however the output is blank???? The .dir .pag files are there, it just doesn't show anything in the database?

Server version: Apache/2.0.55
This is perl, v5.8.5 built for i586-linux

Thanks in advance

Check if you are referring to the proper dir and pag file or the script is running in some location and creating a empty database.

Also try to print %h as such and see if any result is printed.

Check the permission of the database files [whether they have proper ownership and file permission]

Cheers
Zulfi

blank?
completely?
what happens when you do it in offline mode?

e.g: blah.cgi x=y

ok, both files are there and have size of 18k, which sounds right for the amount o information.

Permissions are fine and I have tried command line, still no luck, the cgi prints the html header and doesn't error to say it had a problem opening the database.

I was thinking, could it be a problem with the perl version? maybe different versions access perl databases differently? or could moving the file via ftp have corrupted it? below are the file types

linksdata.dir: GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian
linksdata.pag: GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian

maybe, different if created on a different machine.
have you tried:

use AnyDBM_File;

Tried that, no luck

does it work on localhost?
can you see the server logs?