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[jmazillo]

Hey I need some help!
I have just istalled the calendar script on my apache server, installation was easy. but i cannot get the events to add to the calendar view?, The events add to the event.txt, and schedule.txt, but do not show on the calendar?? I get not error, is actually sez event added?
any thoughts? , I'm trying to use the defualt calendar

Jmazillo@comcast.net
my scripts are in   var/www/cgi-bin/calendarscript...

[DanO]

Are perhaps the events pending awaiting Administrator approval? Or was it the Administrator account that attempted to post them?

Dan O.

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[Randall K]

I am having exactly the same problem.  Everything seems to be working correctly, but events I add do not appear on the calendar.  I can see them in the events.txt and schedule.txt file, but they are not displayed on the calendar.

Any suggestions?

[michael]

I'm having the same problem.  I can create the events but they don't appear on the calendar.  I am creating them in the admin mode so they don't have to be approved.  Anybody have any suggestions.  If I can't get this thing working I'm not going to buy it.

[brandor]

I'm having the same problem. Our school bought a liscense a couple years back and we have used the calendar without any troubles whatsoever.

Recently, we got a new webpage and server . The new server runs Apache instead of IIS. I attempted to move the contents of the calendar directory to the apache server, but now it's not displaying any of the events in our calendar. I checked all of the permissions and everything else. The events.txt and schedule.txt files do have the information in them, the calendar is just not displaying them. To make sure, I upgraded the calendar on the IIS server and it stilled displayed all of the events. But when I move to the Apache server, nothing is displayed.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks!

[DanO]

I can't think of anything which could cause that problem except incorrect file or directory permissions.

Dan O.

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[unregistered]

I have the same issue.  I have chmod all permissions except the Templates.  Do those also need to be changed?

Once I get this puppy working I will register it.

[DanO]

** I have chmod all permissions except the Templates. **

To what? Not all servers allow files or difectories to be chmod to 777 if that's what you used. Check your host's CGI FAQs for what is acceptable on their server.

** Do those also need to be changed? **

They shouldn't usually need to be. Them and their directory should just need read and write permissions.

Dan O.

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[unregistered]

Thanks DanO,

I'm attempting to run it on my own server.  It is a Mac OS X set up running apache.  It is OS X 10.3, so it is a current version of Apache, Perl, etc..  When I pulled the code to Calendarscript I simply placed the files in the cgi-bin directory as directed.  Then I performed CHMOD as indicated in the documentation - CHMOD 755 calendar.pl, calendar_admin.pl. CHMOD 777 the 'calendarscript' directory and all files/directories under it.

After completing this I also added the $Base_Dir path as required on my server.

On the CHMOD 777, I initially did not do any more than the specific instruction - meaning, I did not drill down the the individual files within the directories UNDER the calendarscript directory and change their permissions.  For example, I did not CHMOD files within the "Lib" directory.

The reason I asked about the 777 setting was that the instruction is somewhat vague.  At the risk of sounding like a politician, what is meant by "all" in the instruction, and does it matter?  Is it this that is causing the events added NOT to show on the calendar, or is it something else?

Since it is clear I am not the only one this is happening to, there must be some common thread here.  Any ideas what people have fixed the problem have done?

Thanks in advance,

Jon

[DanO]

** Is it this that is causing the events added NOT to show on the calendar, or is it something else? **

If the events and schedules are being added to the exents.txt and schedule.txt files respectively, permissions should not be the cause of the events not displaying on the calendar.

I however can not think of what would cause such a failure without generating error messages. Maybe one (or more) of the program's files are corrupted and the failure is taking place there and just not being reported by the script?

If you originally downloaded the zip file, you could try the tar.gz file or vise versa and upload a fresh copy.

** I'm attempting to run it on my own server. **

Is that going to be its final location? If not, maybe try it right on the server it will eventually be used on.

Dan O.

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[unregistered]

Thanks Again Dan O!

Here is what I found - and yes, I feel stupid...

By downloading the app within the Safari browser and having it automatically expanding the file I did not consider the possibility that the files were not in Unix format - which they were not.  The debug.pl app certainly showed me this.

The solution for my situation was to get the .tar file and untar it.  This can be done either in the terminal (OS X), or using the handy program called (approprately enough) UNTAR for the mac.

It was indeed odd that the app would run at all because of this, but what the heck...

Regards,

jon