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ImageMagick
ImageMagick
6.0.2 is installed and can be located in /usr/local/bin
The
perl module Image::Magick is also installed.
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File
Permissions
Many
time a script's installation instructions or readme
file will tell you that you need to change permissions
on or chmod a file/directory so that the script can
execute or write to the file/directory. You'll need
to make these changes through the file manager or through
ftp.
Usually
programs will display permission in an odd way such
as this:
_rwxrwxrwx
In
number form that's 777. You may or may not have the
_ at the beginning. If you do, that means it's a file
that has those permissions. If it's a directory you'll
see a d there (drwxrwxrwx) instead of the underscore.
Each
group of 3 characters are the permissions for the user,
the group and finally others (everyone else). In addition,
each group of 3 characters make up one number. The following
is what each letter stands for:
r (read) = 4
w (write) = 2
x (execute) = 1
To
give some examples of some common permission converted
from the letters to numbers (with the first character
removed to avoid some confusion):
rwxrwxrwx -> 777
rwx_r_xr_x -> 755
rw_rw_rw_ -> 666
rw_r__r__ -> 644
As
you see above, you just add up what each letter is equal
to in each group to form the numbers.
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Think
CGI isn't working? Use this.
Here
is a small test script that you should be able to upload
to your directory, chmod (change permissions) to 755
and then access via the web to see if an account's cgi
access is working.
code:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "All is working. :)";
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You may put the above code into a .cgi file or a .pl
file. If you get a 500 internal error, then check to
make sure you uploaded it in ascii mode and that it's
been given the correct permissions. If you're sure everything
is correct, then please send in a support desk ticket
with the username of the account experiencing the problems,
the servername of the server the account is on, and
the url to this test script you uploaded to that account.
The
problems are usually with permissions to folders or
cpanel/whm creating improper ownership of some of the
directories. It's best to let us just fix the problem
than to wipe out the account and recreate it again.
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PHP
& CGI (including modules) Information
Should
you need to find out what cgi modules are installed
on the server you reside on or information on php, the
following urls should give you the information you require:
Perl info - http://216.193.213.78/perldiver.cgi
PHP info - http://216.193.213.78/phpinfo.php
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What
is the path to...?
Sendmail:
/usr/sbin/sendmail
Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Date: /bin/date
Whois: /usr/bin/whois
Web
directory: /home/username/www
or /home/username/public_html
Cgi-bin: /home/username/www/cgi-bin
Replace
username with the cpanel
username for the account the script is under. The previous
3 paths may be asked for in the script as an absolute
path or a system path. Please note that the paths only
go as far as the directories above and you may need
to add on to them for the specific file or directory
your script is calling for.
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