> > > Hey Olaf, need help getting the Forum to work, i did everything by the book, yet I still cant get it to run, BTW I used to be able to open .cgi files with my HTML sofware but i cant seems to open forum.cgi, i get error message file is corrupted.. Can ya help me? I just need to get the Forum.cgi running that's all..and what should i CHMOD forum.cgi and i upload them in BINARY mode like the Guide says. And when i tried to run ....../cgi-bin/forum.cgi? via web i get ERROR 500. I know i screwed somethin but i cant seems to able to find it.

> > It's an executable, so you can't open it with a text editor. It should be chmoded to 755 IIRC.

> Ok, yea i chmoded to 755..errm IIRC?? explain IIRC

If I recall correctly.

> > Are you sure it's uploaded in binary mode, is the size still the same?

> Yea binary mode, filesize is the same.

In that case I think your host does not run Linux on a x86 system.