Friday, August 6, 2010

Tracker Issue

Maryanne let me know that the yotreps yacht tracker program had stopped working. For some reason the webserver has stopped executing perl scripts which aren't in the cgi-bin directory. I don't know why. Someone at my web hosting company must have changed a setting on the server. I don't know if this a temporary problem, or if they will fix it soon.

Anyway, I moved a copy of the program to the cgi-bin directory, and it works fine. But anyone using the program to track their boat will need to change the html code on their blog in order to access it. For example, my code changed from:



to:

2 comments:

SV-Footprint said...

Big thanks Captain! I know you don't get anything from any of us, and you have spent your time and effort on this app we love - so Very Big THANK YOU. :-)

NautiG said...

My pleasure. Thanks for letting me know there was a problem.