On 17 Feb 97 at 23:02, Acrobat Talk Mailing List wrote:

Brad,

Your use of the script is correct. However check ownership of the
script! The user that runs your web server must also be the owner of
the cgi-bin script.

>
> Date: 17 Feb 1997 07:33:20 -0800
> From: switzer@nsf.org
> Subject: Assistance needed with PDF byteserving
>
> I downloaded the byteserver.pl file, renamed it just byteserver,
> and put it in my cgi-bin directory. I did a chmod 755 to the file.
> I put my optimized pdf file under a subdirectory called 4thquarternews.
>
> The URL:
>
> http://www.nsf.org/4thquarternews/page1.pdf brings up the file fine.
>
> I am trying to byteserve it with this line:
>
> http://www.nsf.org/cgi-bin/byteserver/4thquarternews/page1.pdf.
>
> All I can get is a file not found. If anybody has any clue what
> I might be doing wrong, I'd appreciate hearing about it. THANKS!
>
> Brad Switzer
> Webmaster
> NSF International
> http://www.nsf.org

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