Installing Yabb on Linux

[datamike]

I just installed Yabb on linux box and I am running into some probs. I am sure this is a silly question for some but when I upload the files some are supposed to be in ASCII format. They say all the *.pl and *.cgi are supposed to be in ASCII. I have done that. I have even changed the perms to 775 just to make no conficts for now. When I try and type in the URL I get a page not found error. If I try and browse to the file I can see the file but it is a text file as if I was opening it in VI or something. Am I supposed to be typeing in the cgi file or the HTML file. I am a little confused and as you can see its my first time doing this. Any help is great. Thanx in advance.

[cloverm]

You have to strip out the ^M characters from the .pl and .cgi files. This PET will help you:
http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/p...play&id=11

[datamike]

I had that problem before but I dont see any of those characters now. When I do that command it says "trailing characters" Any ideas?

[cloverm]

I had that problem before but I dont see any of those characters now. When I do that command it says "trailing characters" Any ideas?

Exactly what command?

[datamike]

:%s/<ctrl-v><enter>//g
I type that and then I typed :wq to write and quit but then it tells me trailing characters. I am not sure what VI is telling me. I didnt edit any of the Perl scripts in Windoze. I did it all in Linux. I had to Re-FTP some of the files to make sure they were in ASCII format. I am stuck now though.

[cloverm]

The YaBB code for some strange reason comes with the ^M characters in the files.
Copy all the .pl and .cgi files to a single folder, then issue this command:

perl -e "s/\r//g;" -pi $(find /home/user/yabb -type f)

Change the /home/user/yabb part to your actual folder. Then FTP these files to the server.

[andrzej]

The YaBB code for some strange reason comes with the ^M characters in the files.
Copy all the .pl and .cgi files to a single folder, then issue this command:

perl -e "s/\r//g;" -pi $(find /home/user/yabb -type f)

There is a waaay simpler method:

# unzip -a Y1Gold_SP1.1_pl.zip

[datamike]

Ohh man does this suck. I tried doing it all the ways you guys have suggested and even tried the *.pl package over the cgi and I still get the same text file. Do you think I could be missing any dependant files. The box is RH 7.2. I will try until it works.

[GonzoJohn]

Try running dos2unix on the file. It cleans out those nasty characters.

If you don't have dos2unix, look on rpmfind.net or freshmeat

[andrzej]

Is your apache configured to execute scripts ? Do you have mod_perl installed and enabled ? Can you execute via apache this script ?

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Something";

Try this first and proceed to YaBB as soon as you succeed.