Hi Captain John Thanks.

One little tid bit I just stumbled on.

I opened my admin.var file and I noticed that after
the username password and most of the files there was
a extra symbol it wont show on this board if I copy and
paste it. Its like a squar zero.

After I removed all of them I can now log in.
Problem is I have 1,800 members so I would rather
not do this by hand.

Now I guess the next question would be did I use ascii
or binary mode on the file transfer.

I don't know on the old board?
Its like 9 years old.
It is on line WORKING.
I did the conversion on line and in my root directory.
I did NOT transfer files to do the conversion.

Sorry to bother you Captain John.


After I add the file.
Am I supposed to run setup again?
Or just change the file?

Thanks.

Copied file.
Pasted to note pad.
Changed path to perl.
Uploaded to server in ascii.
Changed name to Setup_003.pl
Changed permissions to 755.
Hit it with Browser.

Error 500 Internal Server Error (Premature end of script headers: Setup_003.pl)

I always have a hard time getting pl scripts to run on
the server. Sometimes they wont work when I first try them
and then hours later they will work.

The server is free BSD and the shebang is
#!/usr/local/bin/perl --
not the general
#!/usr/bin/perl --

I know this because I have 2 working yabb boards
in the same cgi bin.

I used.

Edit - Select ALL - Copy functions of your browser, then Edit Paste in Note Pad

Although I didn't do that the first time.

I also called the file Setup.pl
and deleted the existing Setup file.

File was uploaded in ascii.
and chmod 777

Ill have to work on this next weekend so ill
keep trying.

Many thanks for your help and patience.

Well I guess I couldn't sleep LOL
So I looked over the internet and stared reading
how Perl scrips work.

This was at the top of my Setup.pl that was returning
errors.


#!/usr/local/bin/perl --

###############################################################################
# Setup.pl                                                                    #
###############################################################################
# YaBB: Yet another Bulletin Board                                            #
# Open-Source Community Software for Webmasters                               #
# Version:        YaBB 2.3.1                                                  #
# Packaged:       January 04, 2009                                            #
# Distributed by: http://www.yabbforum.com ;                                   #
# =========================================================================== #
# Copyright (c) 2000-2009 YaBB (www.yabbforum.com) - All Rights Reserved.     #
# Software by:  The YaBB Development Team                                     #
#               with assistance from the YaBB community.                      #
# Sponsored by: Xnull Internet Media, Inc. - http://www.ximinc.com ;           #
#               Your source for web hosting, web design, and domains.         #
###############################################################################

$setupplver = 'YaBB 2.3.1 $Revision: 1.34.2.17.2.33 $';

# use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); # used only for tests


So I was reading that I could (Uncomment ? )
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

And (I think ) force the browser to print by.
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

So I changed the Setup.pl to read.

#! /usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

And the browser returned the error.

Status: 500 Content-type: text/html
Software error:


Can't locate ./Variables/advsettings.txt in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9 . ./Modules ./Modules) at /home/public/cgi-bin/yabb2/Setup.pl line 4280.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (nobody), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

So I looked in ./Variables/advsettings.txt and there is
no file by this name.

But I am a little closer.
And it almost midnight LOL.
My how $Time="flys" 

Convert.lock and Setup.lock
are both in the ./Variables folder
they are both chmod 664

Cool! Something like that had crossed my mind.
Only I diden't know what verson. as I remember

my 1.4 is an upgrade itself.

Ill get it set up and give it a try,,

Thanks!

mmmm must be something with ftp or the bsd server itself ... maybe something with carriage returns .... but I am at a lost why that character is appearing.