Problem with free tracker code

[justinofoz]

Hi folks, sorry to be here for the first time and being so pertinent as to immediately seek help. 
I got a free tracker code from Andy's site, which I will definitely be frequenting along with this forum.
I am getting an error message that I don't know what to do in order to fix it. (I don't know much about Java). It would be a big help to me if I could gain some advice from Andy on this, but I'm not at all fussy where I get good advice from.

The error message I am getting is:

Warning: fopen(log.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/williams/public_html/aussibiz/log/tracker.php on line 35

Warning: fopen(log.txt): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/williams/public_html/aussibiz/log/tracker.php on line 37

Warning: file(log.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/williams/public_html/aussibiz/log/tracker.php on line 48

I'm off to join up with Andy's directory, but I will be here often to annoy you all and maybe get some help. Who knows, I may even have a solution for somebody else's problem tucked away somewhere in my old brain and be able to give something back.

[Hope]

Hi folks, sorry to be here for the first time and being so pertinent as to immediately seek help. 

That is why this community exists. We all need help with various things. You are encourages to ask as many questions as you have. You are also encourages to provide advice and information to others. You might even take a look at the Word Assocation Game going on. It is a lot of fun.

As for your error, I am not an expert in this. Andy should be by soon to help you out. I know he will know the answer.

[justinofoz]

Thank you Hope, great forum and thank you for the reply. I'll await with patience for Andy. I like his style, his website reflects him very well. Just found it today from Graham (12Noon) - Cas tiger. I will have a look at the game but I have a very short attention span with most games these days. I have some urgency in setting my website up to earn some money and I have some serious lack of coding knowledge because of my youth-wasted time in playing games like snooker, cards, chess and did I mention, wasting time pointlessly. So in between setting up some scripts and configuring them while I learn everything the hard way, and running a labour-intensive web-group, Forum and its associated services. If I can get a few minutes to myself I need to learn a couple of coding languages, Java, perl and php. 

[Andy]

Hi Justinofoz,

I just got alerted to your post for help.

My tracker code works well when it works! The problem is usually todo with permissions on your hosting. Even I don't fully understand the subject. The tracker code has to be able to write to a file on your website so needs the file and directory attributes to be set to an appropriate level. The most insecure setting is 777 where anyone can write, read and execute files. But I suspect, the web host further restricts the access. I found that some of my hosting needs the chmod 777 setting for it to work. Even so, I didn't get any problem from hackers on most of my sites! I always use Linux-based hosting so I don't know what problems may occur on Windows servers.

Nowadays, I go for hosting with built-in stats now I'm confident about not losing money on a site.

[justinofoz]

Thanks Andy for the reply. I have set the permissions at 777 but suspect that I have some settings wrong somewhere. Thanks anyway Andy.

In fact, I am hosted with OnSmart using Unix and the stats are pretty good, but I just thought that a more or less configurable tool might have been some help in watching my back with my search engine. I really need something that will maintain a database of click-thru affiliate IDs, and that will look it up before crediting the affiliates account.

If I only knew perl. It should be a simple thing to add to an engine script. I have a topsites (php) script that only counts one click-thru a day. Multiple voting isn't possible.

Like your website.

[MyWebTeks]

Usually php files need to be chmod to 666 to function properly. The best way to find out the problem with a particular error issue is to contact the vendor of the program. Sometimes a programmer creates their files in binary as well so you would need to make sure that you upload your files in binary mode instead of ascii if that is what the instructions call for. Most of the time this is not necessary as most php scripts are created to be uploaded in ascii mode.

If the files are stored locally on your server, you also need to make sure you have entered the proper paths to your folders and files for the script. Most paths are releveant to the location of your script and not absolute url's unless called for in the config file of the script. Some scripts also will not function unless you use the exact file structure that the script came in. This includes the main directory of the script. In other words, depending on the script, you would need to keep the same name of the of the main directory folder when installing the script.

Again, the best way to find out what the problem is you are having is to contact the script vendor or creator.