cgi-bin file not showing...

[mtoxic619]

Hi. I just downloaded, installed, set-up, and tested PSNews successfully. I don't know if any of you are familiar with the program, its a news content managing program that must be installed in the cgi-bin directory. The program itself works great, and it allows me to edit the templates. Now onto my problem...

There is a file, /cgi-bin/PSNews/Data/headlines.txt that displays the newest news the way I wanted to. Using my FTP manager, I can easily view this file the way its supposed to look. But when you go to its actual location, http://pwiaccess.com/cgi-bin/PSNews/Data/headlines.txt the file does not display. Why would this be, and once I fix that, I can easily display this page on my site in an iframe.

Any ideas???

[Dave]

500 server errors are usually the responsibility of the operators of your web server to locate and analyse the logs which should give further information about the error.

You should open a ticket with support to see if they can help you.

Dave

[scottcrew]

Anything that is within a cgi-bin needs to be run through a script. You can't view the files directly.
if it was installed outside the cgi-bin you will not have this problem of viewing the file using a direct URL.

Are you sure that you must run it from within the cgi-bin? You can run cgi scripts outside of the cgi-bin...

HTH!