Admin mode for Links script

After much effort I've gotten the links script up and running, but what I don't have is any users guide for the admin mode. One of the problems I encountered on adding links during my installation testing was that I got 6 copies of the same link and now I want to delete them.

I cannot figure out how to do it from within the admin tool from the way it is designed.

Is there a help file or user guide for the links page script?

Would kindly post how you did it. I've tried following the install directions with no success. Not quiet sure what to replace with own domain and urls. Thanks in advance. Lucho

The thing I missed was in the addlink.html file. There is a hardcoded path to http://www.localhost.com/cgi-bin/links.pl that needs to be changed to where you put your links.pl file.

I couldn't get mine running in the cgi-bin directory so I made a cgi-bin directory within the links directory.

all html files in www.domainname.com/links and the links.pl file in www.domainname.com/links/cgi-bin.

Lastly, you must change the permissions on the html files to allow read/write (666 as I recall) because the addlink.html opens and writes to the ffa-internet (or other) html files. It does NOT use a database.

Hope that helps. Seems like they never answer anything here and if we don't help each other, you won't get help here. I see old posts never answered. It is a shame because alot of work went into writing these, but most people cannot get them to work.

Hi Toysmith,
I was also hoping someone else with more experience with the script would add a word or two.
Anyway, I think I finally got the script going using my default cgi-bin for the script and I created a folder "links" in the root directory where I put all the html, gif, and txt files.
I'm able to add links but for some reason I got a duplicate and when I tried to run the script to delete it I got something like this:
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Free Link Page Return to Free Link Page
No Valid Command!

Back to submit form
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That's it. Obviously, there is something wrong somewhere although it may not be too serious. I'll keep tingering with the configuration to see if I could figure out, but if there is someone who already figured it out please... share it. Thanks!

Hi Toysmith,
Good news! I didn't have to tinker with anything. Apparently, I had done the right thing in the setup but I was not entering the correct link. I needed to use: "http://domainname.com/cgi-bin/links.pl?admin=enter" which asked for the password to take me to Administration and from then on I was able to delete the extra links by re-entering the pw and selecting the right category. Please post if this helps or if you need more information. Thanks and good luck!

I'd like to know the answers as well. I get duplicates also. Seems like it remembers the last entry and when you try to go to the admin page, it adds the last thing again. I have 6 entries for the same link.

This thing may be too flakey to deal with, but I haven't decided yet. Going to play with it more in the next few days.

I cant beleive the admin pass is "enter" VERY confusing! I was changing the word "enter" to my actual password! Man was that annoying!