O.K. I sc@#wed the pooch... I have a successful install from 2004 of AgoraCart 4.? that has been up and running for quite some time (http://www.shopthecatstore.com/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi); however, it is currently sitting unused. Now I am in the process of setting up a new store on the same private server and have been fighting with a manual install of AgoraCart 5.0. I did have the store and manager up and running but with a few errors that I couldn't seem to get corrected. I couldn't finalize an order as the confirm order step would only go to https://secure.server???/~username/store5/agora,cgi??? and not to the secure server that I had designated in the store manager (setup). I couldn't figure out why. The install was done manually with tar -zxvf (even tried tar -zxvpf like in the FTP5.cgi script) in the cgi-bin (as the Apache server runs under one user id) and ran o.k. with a wild card ssl cert (the old store is on the same server). I did see access errors for .pl files and tried different permissions until I decided to just open it up wide with chmod 777. When I did that I got the "Owners do not match!" error. Start again... removed the store5 directory, untarred, and gcc'd the wrappers... now I constantly get the "Owners do not match!" error and I have not changed any permissions. There are no errors in the Apache error_log pertaining to the agora cart problem.
I don't expect you to tell me what I could have done to my server, but why is it that this account has decided to have trouble since changing the permissions? I built and manage the server. Slackware 10.0, Apache 1.3.31, mod_ssl, gcc 3.3.4. I am not a Linux newbie but not yet a guru. I have tried fully deleting the user and recreating the account and directories but this still occurs. I have even tried to do the install with the older account (keeping the two stores in separate directories) and get the same. If I access the agora.cgi file before gcc'ing the wrapper, I get the program but incomplete with no images (or showing of dead image links). (NOTE: I need to add a "0" to the "exit()" line oat lines 50 and 60 to create the wrappers.) Has the chmod 777 prompted the AgoraCart 5 program to create a security file to stop it's use? Have I missed something along the way? I would like to get this store up and running with a current version of AgoraCart. If you suspect a permissions error, is there a listing of permissions for directories and files for AgoraCart 5? I seem to only be able to find for AgoraCart 4.
Store URL w/ wrappers: http://www.starlingsjewelry.com/cgi-bin/store5/agora.cgi
Store URL w/o wrappers: http://www.starlingsjewelry.com/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi