The Collective, v2

Configuration

[Jack]

What am I missing?
Several weeks ago I downoaded the Collective and set it up with great expectations. Needless to day, I was disappointed when it would not work. I followed the instructions in setting the configuration, fiddled with the directory structures and the permissions, reloaded in ascii several times, etc. I could never get never get any results to print and I have alwasy been left with this message:

Submission in progress ...
Submitting: [linkstew.com...]
Email used this url: [e-mail]

Results Pages:

But, that's it. No results, ever. Obviously, the program works for others but not for me. The server my url resides on uses perl v5 with apache. If anyone knows of any obscure (or obvious) settings I can check I would be very happy to hear from you.

Thank you,
Jack

[FTP]

I'm getting the same thing(nothing really submits) on 3 of my servers. I haven't looked at collective in a while but other scripts had the same problems. It seemed that open() and system() calls have been disabled within CGI scripts on those servers.

[mark roach]

Same Problem Here.

Does anyone know how to fix it. How can we enable open() and system() calls if they are causing the problem ?

Thanks
Mark Roach

[mark roach]

Cracked my problem. The engine.ini file had some spurious newline characters that were not being removed by the chomp function in sedefine.lib.

2 ways round this either replace

chomp($line);

with

chop($line);
chop($line);

or

ftp engine.ini again in ascii mode.