1. Setting up Form Mail on a web site.
2. Setting up Guestbook on a web site.
3. Setting up Simple Search on a web site.
4. Setting up WWW Board on a web site.
5. Setting up Text Counter on a web site.

First of all you need to upload to your cgi-bin directory the ile named FormMail.pl, and set the permissions to 755. You can get that file from Matt's scripts archive. The other file that you need to get is README file, from the same URL(that is the page with the instructions that you can refer to at any times, when configuring your Form).

After configuring the FormMail.pl you need to modify/append your actual HTML file that calls the script, and have the following lines of code in it (inside of the HTML body tag).

<form action="http://your_domain.name/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl"method="POST">
<input type=hidden name=recipient value="your_username@your_domain.name"> <input type=hidden name=redirect value="http://your_domain.name/thanks.htm">

Internet Protocol (IP) Numbers (IP addresses): A unique, numeric identifier used to specify hosts and networks. Internet Protocol (IP) numbers are part of a global, standardized scheme for identifying machines that are connected to the Internet. Technically speaking, IP numbers are 32 bit addresses that consist of four octets, and they are expressed as four numbers between 0 and 255, separated by periods, for example: 198.41.0.52. IP allocation for the Americas, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa are currently handled by the American Registry for Internet Numbers.

If you do not know what your IP address is, you should find it in your Web Space Confirmation letter.

How do I set up the Guestbook on my web site?

First of all you need to upload to your cgi-bin directory the file named guestbook.pl, and set the permissions to 755. You can get that file from Matt's scripts archive. The other file that you need to get is README file, from the same URL(that is the page with the instructions that you can refer to at any times, when configuring your Guestbook).

After configuring the guestbook.pl you need to modify/append your actual HTML file that calls the script (you can download an already precoded one called addguest.html), and have the following line of code in it (inside of the HTML body tag). Make sure, that you have the the correct line at the < form action... part. it should be as follows.

<form method=POST action="http://your_domain.name/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl">

First of all you need to upload to your cgi-bin directory the file named search.pl, and set the permissions to 755. You can get that file from Matt's scripts archive. The other file that you need to get is README file, from the same URL(that is the page with the instructions that you can refer to at any times, when configuring your Guestbook).

After configuring the search.pl you need to modify/append your actual HTML file that calls the script (you can download an already precoded one called search.html), and have the following line of code in it (inside of the HTML body tag).
Make sure, that you have the the correct line at the < form action... part. it should be as follows.

<form method=POST action="http://your_domain.name/cgi-bin/search.pl">

First of all you need to upload to your cgi-bin directory the file named wwwboard.pl, and wwwadmin.pl and set the permissions to 755. You can get that file from Matt's scripts archive. The other file that you need to get is README file, from the same URL(that is the page with the instructions that you can refer to at any times, when configuring your WWWBoard). (Assumed that the username is your_username)

After modification your wwwadmin.pl should look like this

After configuring the wwwboard.pl you need to modify/append your actual HTML file that calls the script (you can download an already precoded one called wwwboard.html), and have the following line of code in it (inside of the HTML body tag). Make sure, that you have the the correct line at the < form action... part. it should be as follows.

<form method=POST action="http://your_domain.name/cgi-bin/wwwboard.pl">

First of all you need to upload to your cgi-bin directory the file named counter.pl, and set the permissions to 755. You can get that file from Matt's scripts archive. The other file that you need to get is README file, from the same URL(that is the page with the instructions that you can refer to at any times, when configuring your Text Counter). (Assumed that the username is your_username) class="des09">After modification your counter.pl should look like this.

After configuring the counter.pl you need to create a directory called data and set the permissions of it to 755. Modify/append your actual SHTML file that should have the counter on it. You must include the following line in your html source.

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter.pl"-->

Please remember that the counter script works with SSI enabled pages, so in order for the counter to display correctly you must have your web page have ".shtml" extension and not .html or .htm.