guestbook setting up

Hi Amber I am not sure if they do use .pl but I know that the hosts of my own web site use it. unfortunately this lot do not answer as fast as Supanames when I ask them something. I just have to try different things, also I do not have a C/Panel it was too cheap a hosting package for that. I would prefer not to give access to my ftp as I would like to do everything myself with help of course. Once I learn something I will remember how to do it in the future. I have just altered the files to how I would normally ref something. I think I had uploaded them wrong. I did understand what you were saying about .pl and cgi. Have tried again and failed but will let you know if I succeed with the advice you have kindly given me. The only thing that puzzles me is what is user in this I get from knowledge base with hosts
/home/domains/1waytraffic.co.uk/user/htdocs

where mydomain.com is the name of your domain without the www..

When you upload your files to the Internet using FTP, you must give a username and a password. Usr should be this username that you log in with.

I have tried that but it seems that the files I downloaded from proxy2 seem to have a lot of folders in them. uploading them to cgi-bin opens another folder called guestbook and inside that another folder called cgi-bin again and one called book. I think something else seems wrong as well especially as they have three lines where it says http:/// so maybe it isn't all me going wrong. I will try another script I think.

Barry, I don't think you are supposed to put all those files in the cgi-bin. I think the only file that goes there is the one named guestbook.pl (or guestbook.cgi). The rest of them go in the "book" directory, and the "book" directory is in the root (public). So, all the other files would be located somewhere like this:

Public_html

book

(all the other guestbook directories and files)

The files you downloaded show the structure or the way they should be on your server, so that just means:

On your computer, go to the directory under "guestbook" that says "cgi", find the file that says guestbook.pl and upload it to the cgi directory on your server.

Then, on your computer, go to the directory under "guestbook" that says "book" and load that entire directory to the root (public) directory of your server.

When you are done loading all the files, the only thing for the guestbook that will be in your cgi bin is the "guestbook.pl" file. You should not have any other guestbook directories there.

In your public directory will be the "book" directory with all of the other files in it. It will not have a "cgi-bin".

Make sense?