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To get the guestbook.pl script running correctly, you need to change the following four variables:
$guestbookurl -- The URL of your guestbook.html file
$guestbookreal -- The system location of your guestbook.html file
$guestlog -- The system location of your guestlog.html file
$cgiurl -- The URL portion of the address to the guestbook.pl file
Let's take a look at each of these variables to see what they're doing:
$guestbookurl -- The URL of your guestbook.html file
Remember that any HTML file that a script needs to access must be in your cgi-bin, and that CGI scripts are run off a special server. This
line of code would be changed to:
$guestbookurl="http://cgi.tripod.com/your_membername/cgi-bin/guestbook.html";
$guestbookreal -- The system location of your guestbook.html file
The CGI server doesn't recognize any of Tripod's other servers while your script is running, so the system location of any file in your
cgi-bin is simply "filename." This line of code needs to be:
$guestbookreal="guestbook.html";
$guestlog -- The system location of your guestlog.html file
This uses coding similar to that found in the code for $guestbookreal. The code is:
$guestlog="guestlog.html";
$cgiurl -- The URL portion of the address to the guestbook.pl file
CGI scripts have the same basic URL as other files in your cgi-bin. Use the following code:
$cgiurl="http://cgi.tripod.com/your_membername/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl";
We're nearly there! We've got just a few final tweaks before your guestbook will be up and running.
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