[cobalt-users] Hit Counters with FrontPage Extensions

["Dale Peck" <Dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Someone recently asked about broken counters using FrontPage; I deleted the
message, because I wasn't having trouble and had no information to offer, so
I don't have the original post.

Today a client called saying that his FrontPage counter didn't work... I
looked into it and found that for some reason when FP creates the count
file(s) (filename.htm.cnt) it is not giving the file(s) proper permissions
so that it can not write to the file to increment the count. It used to work
just fine on our server - we have several that are still working that were
created a few months ago.

To fix the problem you'll need to give write permission to any count files.
They are found in the _private directory in the web directory.

cd _private
ls -l
   {you'll see that they don't have write permission}
   drwxr-sr-x   2 nobody   site6        1024 Nov 11 19:53 _vti_cnf
   -rw-r--r--   1 nobody   site6          23 Nov 11 19:53 index.htm.cnt

chmod a+w *.cnt
ls -l
   {now they should show write permission}
   drwxr-sr-x   2 nobody   site6        1024 Nov 11 19:53 _vti_cnf
   -rw-rw-rw-   1 nobody   site6          23 Nov 11 19:53 index.htm.cnt

This fixes the immediate problem. As yet I haven't looked into fixing FP so
that it creates them properly.


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