aw shucks, awstats not working

[lisakahane]

My error log says:
Premature end of script headers: /www/l/lisakahane/cgi-bin/awstats.pl

I have little idea what this means. As far as I can tell, I followed the tutorial exactly. My permissions are set to 755. I used bbedit to personalize the conf file, which is titled with my domain name.

I have now flooded my ht/docs folder with a gazillion small files, to no avail.

Can someone offer a suggestion?

Thanks:(

[jimnyc]

What FTP program are you using? If WSFTP, it doesn't always show permissions properly. You may want to use your browser to look at permissions

ftp://username@ftp01.powweb.com

(replace ftp01 with your server)

It should prompt you for a password. Once in you can right click and choose properties on files/folders to see permissions.

When I got that error it was a permissions problem on the cgi folder itself.

[ggriffith]

We are working on a solution to this problem right now. As soon as we have a solution, we will post it in the forum.

[jimnyc]

I think the fix posted by ggriffith is better than mine. :)

Thanks for the update, ggriffith!

[lisakahane]

Thanks to both of you for your replies.

I use Fetch and a Mac. My permissions are OK.

I've read in the user forums that I need to enter www with my user name, but where?

Thanks again. Waiting on whatever solutions come along.

Lisa K

[tbonekkt]

Originally posted by lisakahane
I use Fetch and a Mac. Ahh...important info there. Make sure you're not using Text Edit (or Simple Text on OS 9 and older SSW) to edit the config files. Use BBEdit Lite - it's available for free for OS X or OS 9.

EDIT: Here's a direct link to the download file: ftp://ftp.barebones.com/pub/freeware/BBEdit_Lite_612.smi.hqx

[lisakahane]

I'm using bbedit 5.

One more knowledgeable than I says my problem is the lack of folders. Fetch kept opening the folders, so I put the files - hundreds of them! - up without them.

Thanks, LK

[glampe]

Originally posted by ggriffith
We are working on a solution to this problem right now. As soon as we have a solution, we will post it in the forum.

Cool! I'm glad a solution is in the works. I've been ftping my logs to a different server and processing them there. It will nice having the stats automatically update again.

[lisakahane]

Thanks to the romDog webmaster and this forum, awstats now work for me. The problems seem to have been my misuse of Fetch and its inaccurate display of permissions.

A cool program to get for free!

LK