how to enable cgi-bin

Of course you do. domain is not a valid domain name; it doesn't have a TLD.

If you want help you should probably give us real information.

Jeff
 
er yes

er yes i did ask for help, but to anyone else including the service provider using <domain> as an example is enough,l i didnt realise I wasnt asking for help!

Its ok tho, I couldnt get the cgi-bin working and neither could my server provider's technical support so I turned cgi-bin off and went with a php script that does the same job.

Its a pity that I got a sarcastic reply as opposed to something that is useful.

In future I wont ask again!
 
I suppose you'll consider this a sarcastic reply as well, but if others learn from it, it's worth making.

First, look at the number of posts I've made. Well over 90% of them are helpful. So obviously I don't mind making helpful posts.

Perhaps not obviously, but I don't like to waste time; I like to spend as much time as possible actually helping. Which means I like to check the obvious first.

I can't answer as to why your service provider feels he doesn't have to know any details to help you; perhaps you should ask him for help on this issue.

We on this forum are volunteers; almost all of us in the hosting business, where we spend most of our available time. I know I speak for myself, and I know I speak for some others, when I write that I don't like to waste time.

I can log in to your server and fix it promptly. That's a commercial service. If you read my siglines you'll see that. I charge for commercial services.

Perhaps someone else will help you without any information, but almost as certainly, since we all know that DirectAdmin's cgi-bin works for the rest of us, if we try to help you without information we may be just guessing.

Jeff
 
People like polite answers...... and yes the sarcasim with people not listing the domain is rude and keeps this forum from really growing and helping others.

Try this next time, Can you please list your actual domain so we can take a look at it to help you?
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I and others get tired of asking this over and over again. Up until several months ago I used to post a link to a page on why you need to post enough information when asking for help. I stopped doing that because I got too many complaints. Then I simply stopped asking, but didn't bother to help. But that bothers me because with a small amount of information I can be helpful.

And the fact that that page exists, and I can link to it, proves that I'm not the only one who feels this way.

None of this changes the fact that this thread, which has over 60 views as of this moment, has not yet been answered helpfully by anyone, so I'm not sure how my not replying would have resulted in the forum, as busy as it is, being more helpful.

I'm going to stop being defensive on this thread with this post, but as all of us are, I'm a person whose mood and attitude change from day to day.

I thought about what my mother told me when I was very young: if you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all. But I'm not sure it applies here, because then there are a lot of posts that neither I nor anyone else can answer without a simple bit of additional information, won't get answered.

R1Lover, or anyone else, please respond to the post and help shanuvarma, because I can't, without the information for which I've asked.

Or, if the thread continues to grow, but without helping shanuvarma, I suppose I can move it and rename it, and it can become a post to discuss forum etiquette. While I'm not averse to that, I'd rather see shanuvarma get the needed help.

Jeff
 
How about a stickied post in this section (worded nicely) we cant point to that explains this to new users, then we just link to the sticky.
 
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