Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:53:55 EST From: "S M - BigHartUSA" <spmncmb@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: HELP! Message-ID: <20000313185355.71025.qmail@hotmail.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_1be87db4_5f6c6228$eec02a3 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi there, I am trying to install a script onto my homepage and I do not understand some of the instructions so I have enclosed them as a file for your perusal and hopefully you might be able to help me. My questions are in red. Thanks, SPM ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------=_NextPart_000_1be87db4_5f6c6228$eec02a3 Content-Type: text/html; name="readme.html"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="readme.html" <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="Tue, 04 Dec 1993 21:29:02 GMT"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Author" content="Greg Mathews - webmaster@notts.net"> <meta name="description" content="Free Classifieds for the Community of Nottinghamshire in the UK"> <meta name="keywords" content="nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire notts Notts nottingham Nottingham UK uk U.K. u.k. United Kingdom united kingdom Free free Classified classified business Business Web web Home home page Page homepage Homepage advertising Advertising ads adds Ads Adds"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0"> <title>notts.net Classifieds - Nottinghamshire's (UK) Community Site</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#008000" vlink="#800040"> <blockquote> <p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">There are three scripts to classifieds, "classifieds.cgi", "remove.cgi" and "removeall.cgi", the first is the actual script that posts the classified ads, the second allows a user to remove their ad if their item has been sold etc. and the third allows you to delete all ads placed on a certain date.</font></p> <p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"><u>INSTRUCTIONS FOR SETTING UP THE CLASSIFIEDS.CGI SCRIPT</u></font></p> <p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">This script requires at least Perl v4 to run. Place it in your cgi-lib directory on your web server and "chmod 755" to turn it into an executable script. </font></p> <p><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">I don't understand what he means by chmod 755 and Perl v4 (I suppose I have to put Perl v4 in my cgi-lib directory as it says above but would I have to download it and then upload it to my cgi-lib directory on my home page server?) I have not chmod 755 this as I do not know how to.</font></p> <p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">Now, you'll need to edit three of the included form html files for your own ad form. Find the files "index.html", "remove.html" and "removeall.html" and make the following changes:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"><form method=post action="/cgi-bin/classifieds.cgi"> </font><p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">Edit this to where you placed the scripts. If you simply placed them in the cgi-bin directory then this is sufficient.</font></p> <p><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">(I have put the .cgi scripts into a directory called /cgi-bin/)</font></p> </li> <li> </li> <li><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"><input type="hidden" name="ClassifiedsDir" value="/var/www/docs/classifieds/"></font><p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">Edit this to where your classified ads will be located.</font></p> <p><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">The classifieds are located in /cgi-bin/classifieds/</font></p> </li> <li> </li> <li><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"><input type="hidden" name="ViewDir" value="http://www.yourdomain.com/classifieds/"></font><p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">Edit this to the URL where your classified ads will be located.</font></p> <p><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">The URL is http://equscalibus.virtualave.net/cgi-bin/classifieds/</font></p>; </li> <li> </li> <li><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"><input type="hidden" name="ErrorReturn" value="http://www.yourdomain.com/classifieds/index.html"></font><p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">Edit this for where you want the system to return the user if they make an error. It would be wise to return the user back to the adform.</font></p> <p><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">This is located in </font><a href="http://equscalibus.virtualave.net/error/index.html"><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">http://equscalibus.virtualave.net/error/index.html</font></a><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"> and is also located in </font><a href="http://equscalibus.virtualave.net/classifieds/index.html"><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">http://equscalibus.virtualave.net/classifieds/index.html</font></a><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"> . If the user makes an error, he will be returned to the index.html file located in the http://equscalibus.virtualave.net/error/index.html directory.</font></p> </li> <li> </li> <li><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"><input type="hidden" name="ReturnURL" value="http://www.yourdomain.com/classifieds/Thanks.html"></font><p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">This is the URL for the thank you page that thanks the user for placing an ad on your system. You'll need to create this thank you page to whatever you want it to say.</font></p> <p><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">This file is located in http://equscalibus.virtualave.net/thanks/thankyou.html</font></p>; </li> <li> </li> <li><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"><input type="hidden" name="return" value="You@yourdomain.com"></font><p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">This is the return email address that is used for sending emails to users.</font></p> <p><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">I use a web based e-mail program at </font><a href="http://www.hotmail.com"><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">http://www.hotmail.com</font></a><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"> so </font><a href="mailto:You@yourdomain.com"><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">"You@yourdomain.com"</font></a><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"> is </font><a href="mailto:equscalibus@hotmail.com"><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">equscalibus@hotmail.com</font></a><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"> .</font></p> </li> <li> </li> <li><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"><input type="hidden" name="mailprog" value="/usr/sbin/sendmail"></font><p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">This is the location of the mailprog on your server. </font></p> <p><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">I do not understand what a mailprog is or where I would find it.</font></p> </li> </ul> <p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">Now you'll need to create the individual files that the ads will be appended to. If you have five different topics such as "Business", "Employment", "Real Estate", "For Sale", and "Computers", you'll need a file for each different topic. It needs to be the exact name for the department you named in the form. We have included an example file 'computersoftware.html' with this script which you can copy and edit for each of the departments you use.</font></p> <p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">Take a look at the sample index file to see how the departments were added up.</font></p> <p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">Place the AdNumber.dta in the same directory as your classified ads. Make sure you chmod 777 this file and all the classified topic files that you created for each department. You'll also need to take the UserDataFile.html file and place it in the same directory and chmod 777 this file. The name and address info for each advertiser is placed in this file with a link added to the person's name to e-mail them if you need to. It also tells you what ad number it is, what department it was placed in, and the complete text of the ad.</font></p> <p><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">The AdNumber.dta file is in </font><a href="http://equscalibus.virtualave.net/classifieds/"><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">http://equscalibus.virtualave.net/classifieds/</font></a><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"> <br> The UserDataFile.html is in </font><a href="http://equscalibus.virtualave.net/classifieds/"><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">http://equscalibus.virtualave.net/classifieds/</font></a><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL"> <br> But I have not "chmod 777" these files as I do not know how to.</font></p> <p><font face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">Now you're all set. Make sure your ad form is pointed to "post" the information to the directory and file of the script. It should work. The only thing that you may need to change in the scripts files is the first line which points to your perl. The default is #!/usr/bin/perl </font></p> <p><font color="#FF0080" face="COMIC SANS MS,ARIAL">What does he mean by this? </font></p> </blockquote> </body> </html> ------=_NextPart_000_1be87db4_5f6c6228$eec02a3-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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