Installing the MJA Labs Guestbook. Version 1.3

Note:  This guestbook must be installed on an HPFS drive.

In this sample installation the IBM Internet Connection Server was installed to
   e:\wwwserver
using the standard directory structure.

Unzip all of the files into a temporary directory.
Copy all of the html and gif files to your main web page directory.
   COPY *.html e:\wwwserver\HTML
   COPY *.gif e:\wwwserver\HTML
Copy the exe and cfg files to your CGI-BIN directory.
   COPY *.exe e:\wwwserver\CGI-BIN
   COPY *.cfg e:\wwwserver\CGI-BIN
Edit the configuration file to show the position of your web page directory.
   e e:\wwwserver\CGI-BIN\guestbook.cfg
For this example the file should be a single line containing
   e:\wwwserver\HTML\
Note the trailing backslash is important.

Edit the top of the guestbook.html file, the top of the guestentry.html file
and the confirm.html file to present the look you want.

Use the guestbook to make your first entry, when you are sure it works add
a link to it from your homepage.

If upgrading from version 1.x keep your guestbook file.  If the guestbook file grows
too large you can rename it and provide a link to it in the top of the current page.

Note to Apache users: change the lines in the guestentry.html and the confirm.html
that contain the FORM line
from /cgi-bin/guestentry  to  /cgi-bin/guestentry.exe
and
from /cgi-bin/confirm  to  /cgi-bin/confirm.exe

Note:  DO NOT change the last three lines of the guestbook.html file.  The
script relies on the length of these lines to update the page.

Version History

Version 1.0 - Initial Release.
Version 1.1 - Added fix to add http:// to url entry if not supplied.
Version 1.2 - Added time/date stamp to entries, allows easier tracking of web traffic.
                Based on a suggestion by Shawn Reed
Version 1.3 - Fixed problem with guestbook running on Apache web server.

Further Help

If you need any further help, have questions or comments please e-mail me
at mendolf@wpi.edu.

Thanks,
Michael Ayers