Problems with PHP. Need help on urls not being correct

I setup a site using the scuttle script.

you can see my site here

http://www.faved.net

all urls on the page like register - login and about are corret locations but are not working. They give an error saying No input file specified.

I need to know why this is an dhow to fix it. Please someone help.

Thank you

 

Your links are going to a directory, not a php file. For example, "register" goes to "http://www.faved.net/register/" which doesn't work. "http://www.faved.net/register.php" does work, though.

 

I changed the config file so that it will read .php at the end and it does this.

register.php/
and with the / it doesnt work but without it it does. Why?

 

the '/' character at the back of the url tells the server that the url is a directory (instead of a specific file)... as a result, the server looks that the server's config file to refer to a default file to serve (typically index.html, index.htm or index.php).

if the file that you want to server is not in the config file - e.g. register.php, the server cannot find it and returns an error... i.e. file not found...

 

No where in my config does it reference a file.

are u guys familiar with scuttle? go to scuttle.org to download the script to see it.

if you can show me that I can show you how to increase your inbound links on .gov sites.

look at this.

http://www.fedworld.gov/cgi-bin/wai...ndquerystring)+AND+($statestring)+NOT+($junk)

see it says vida guerra

 

I'm not familiar with scuttle, but I would assume that (based on what was said before) mod rewrites were supposed to be enabled. The "No input file specified." error is generally a result of sending a file that doesn't exist (in other words, nothing) to the php processor when running php as a cgi.

P.S. Doing something like this is not impressive.

 

Its probably not impressive to people who read my blog and learn how to do it.

 

Actually, I just looked at the URL that you posted and adjusted it (pretty obvious to the human eye). I don't see how that would be beneficial in any way due to the long query (though you can cut out a huge chunk of the original query url you posted). I wouldn't be surprised if search engines checked the URL for stuff like this (though maybe not for one that is actually fully encoded). Regardless, my point was that you didn't need to bribe the forum with "tricks" to receive responses.

Anyway, as I mentioned before, this is most likely due to running php as a cgi and passing blank data. Did you verify you have php4-mysql module installed? Which version of PHP are you running (and have you tried the latest version of 5?)? Verify you have short open tags enabled. If you are using an old version of apache, you may have to remove AcceptPathInfo from your .htaccess file.