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I presume you have the x execute permissions set on 'count'?

Is it a Perl script ?
go to cgi-bin, and type 'perl -w count' and see what it says?

YOu might want to try Count2.3, from
http://www.semcor.com/~muquit/Count.html
for the latest and greatest.

bob


John Szumowski wrote:

> I'm having a greater amount of difficult getting webcounter
> 1.1 to work
> than I had anticipated.
> The directions themselves are rather...lacking, shall we
> say, in user
> friendliness.
> When I call the counter file from my web page, a la
> <img src="/cgi-bin/count?type=default&length=5">
> the following shows up in logs/error_log:
> [Mon Sep  1 18:26:14 1997] access to
> /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/count
> failed
> for 127.0.0.1, reason: Premature end of script headers
> [Mon Sep  1 18:26:14 1997] Failed to open counter dbmfile:
> counter/svrlog
> [Mon Sep  1 18:26:14 1997] Failed to open counter dbmfile:
> counter/dirlog
> [Mon Sep  1 18:26:14 1997] Failed to open counter dbmfile:
> counter/svrlog
> [Mon Sep  1 18:26:14 1997] Failed to open counter dbmfile:
> counter/dirlog
> ---
> One of my main concerns is these logs. I had to use "touch"
> to create
> them and nothing seems to be recorded in them.
>
> What am I doing wrong? Apache works fine otherwise...
>
> ANY thoughts would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> John Szumowski



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