1.3 worked, 1.6.1 didn't.

[Keith]

Hi everyone,

I've been having troubles with GM version 1.6.1, but 1.3 worked fine. I didn't bother keeping 1.3 since I didn't post any real news to my website that I just got myself a server and domain for. I'm hosted by influxhost.net and influxdomain.com, if saying these would help at all. But after installing 1.6.1 (after deleting everything from 1.3) it seems like that this new version wants me to do a little extra work? I've decided to change the path to perl like the tutorial told me to; use " #!/usr/local/bin/perl" instead of " #!/usr/bin/perl", but this hasn't changed anything. I double checked my CHMOD and all of those are fine. I have no clue what I should do...

Thanks in advance if you can help me out.

[coldstone]

Hi Keith,

What exactly are you seeing thats not working? Are you getting an error when you try to goto the admin page?

Are you able to look through you webserver error logs and see if there are any new messages?

Lastly, you should use the Perl path that you were using with your 1.3 files. If you can, look at the top of your old gm.cgi and see what path it is using.

I looked around the website and if you goto Shell Access you can run the command 'which perl' and that should give you the path to your perl (note you'll want to add the '#!' to the front of the output you get from 'which perl').

[Keith]

Sorry about that post not being very clear, Coldstone.

I've decided to reinstall 1.3, and the perl path that I use is "#!/usr/bin/perl". It works perfectly fine. I used the same path with 1.6.1, but it didn't work at all. I got an error page that told me that the perl path could be incorrect. I don't know anything else about the problem, I didn't look too deeply into it. All I know is that for some reason 1.6.1 doesn't work but 1.3 does, even when I set them up the exact same way.

Maybe I should try to update to instead of deleting/installing?

[coldstone]

yeah, that might work. Since this is my first release, I am very interested in making sure this works.

I would try following the 'upgrade' instructions at the begining of the gm_install.html file. Be sure to make a backup

The '#!/usr/bin/perl' should be the path on the files (old and new), so you shouldn't have to change that. If you still get an error message, it would be helpful if you copy and past it into your post. Let me know if there are problems.