Hi Rachelle, At 08:17 AM 9/8/00 -0700, you wrote: >I'm glad you brought this up b/c I was going to suggest free.prohosting.com >to someone . . . *** As far as I know it's still one the best freebies out there, even though they have abandoned their no-forced-advertising policy. And I'm very pleased with the paid version. >prohosting won't allow _files_ or _directories_ to be chmod 777? None of >the .pl files should need chmod 777, but directory (or folder) "data" does >(sometimes -- you can play around with it) *** I should have been specific in my follow up. 755 works fine for the data directory once I got the other problem resolved. Turned out to be in the path, not the permissions, and upon closer scrutiny of the archive I found the fix in Message 147 posted by curio (Dave?) back in August. >My structure is /cgi-bin > /lib > /data > >is that what you mean by same level? *** Yep, and I'm happy to report that it's all up 'n' runnin copacetic at http://tenderbytes.net/ringlink.html Many thanks again to the helpful members of this list -- I look forward to a long and happy association with you. Mary