Messages posted by: pmonahan

Greetings,

Is there a Spam Fix for those of us using v1.5

Thanks

Peter

Hello,

Our web host recently locked the permissions on our scripts, because somebody from AOL complained that their email address was posted in our guestobook.

We worked out the problems with the host, and they reset the permissions, but now when a guestbook entry is submitted, the entry is added to the guestbook.html page properly, but the following error is returned for the confirmation or "Thank You" page. As result, people hit "submit" multiple times:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster [at] eschellon [dot] com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Apache/1.3.33 Server at eschellon.com Port 80

All files were CHMOD to 755, the host won't allow 777

http://www.eschellon.com/index2.html (frames page)

Then click on Guestbook at top.

Any ideas ??

Thanks

Peter

Hello,

Have not been here in a bit, good to see some old "faces". I noticed a lot of reports of v2.xx being hacked.

Wondering if there is cause for concern for v1.5

We've kept 1.5 because it works.

Any reports of v1.5 Being Hacked ?

Thanks

Peter

Greetings,

I modifed the guestbook.pl file so that new entries would add a row with a black background

# entry bgcolor
$entry_bg = "#000000";
$font_face = "Verdana, Arial";

Unfortunately this applies to the Administration page as well, but I can't find a way to change the FONT color to white on the admin page. The result is black text on a black background on the admin page.

I guess I'd be OK with a white background but only on the Admin Page

Our site uses white text on black background

Please See: http://www.eschellon.com/book/guest-1.html

Any ideas on how to modify the Admin Page too (or leave it as black text on white background ??

Thanks

Peter

P.S. For FREE Music, turn off your Pop-Up Blocker first, then:
http://www.eschellon.com/freemusic.html

Read my earlier post:

http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2714&highlight=template

If you've done all that, you may have a path or cache issue.

What is the url of the webpage and Poll ?

Did you FTP the changed files to the correct directory ?

Use and not and 

 is missing it seems in your modified template

What is the desired result ?? Bold or a New Paragraph ??

Simply rename the file index.php

It's quite simple actually. You just add one line of code to your page as in the one of the examples below:

$php_poll->set_template_set("popup");
or
$php_poll->set_template_set("simple");
or
$php_poll->set_template_set("plain");
etc....

You already know how to insert the code into your existing page or into a new page (remember must have a .php extension)

Here is what that code probably looks like in your stand-alone page:

?>
<html>
<body>
<?php
include_once "/local/home/username/yourdomanin.com/poll/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process(4);

?>
</body>
</html>

Here's what it would look like if you use the "popup" template by adding the one line of code

?>
<html>
<body>
<?php
include_once "/local/home/username/yourdomain.com/poll/booth.php";
$php_poll->set_template_set("popup");
echo $php_poll->poll_process(4);

?>
</body>
</html>

Hope this helps

Peter

[/b]

Did you copy the code as indicated in the admin area and post it into a new ascii text page with a text editor ?

I M P O R T A N T !! you MUST name the page with a .php extension, NOT .htm or .html

Example mypoll.php, my_poll.php, etc.

This is all the code you need in the document to call up your stand-alone page:

<?php
// Important! You have to include it before your html code
include_once "/hsphere/local/home/rfunkman/eschellon.com/poll/poll_cookie.php";
?>

<html>
<body>
<?php
include_once "/hsphere/local/home/rfunkman/eschellon.com/poll/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process(4);
?>
</body>
</html>

you could also insert the code (and poll) into another page, but it too must be a php document

The server time is the physical location of your server and determined by your webhost. This time shows in your "General" configuration.

The server time offset gives you the ability as the administrator to alter the time based upon your geographic location.

Our server for http://www.eschellon.com is located in California. The band is in Connecticut, so we adjusted the server time by setting the server time offset to 3, since we are three hours ahead of California (+3)

Now when we view the generql configuration it is the current time EST for us.

Hope this helps

Peter

Greetings,

I modifed the guestbook.pl file so that new entries would add a row with a black background

# entry bgcolor
$entry_bg = "#000000";
$font_face = "Verdana, Arial";

Unfortunately this applies to the Administration page as well, but I can't find a way to change the FONT color to white. The result is black text on a black background on the admin page.

Our site uses white text on black background

See: http://www.eschellon.com/book/guest-1.html

Any ideas on how to modify the Admin Page too (or leave it as black text on white background ??

Thanks

Peter

Seems I forgot a forward slash:

here's what worked after some experimenting:

$base_dir = "/hsphere/local/home/rfunkman/eschellon.com/book

Thanks

Peter

Greetings:

I have set up my guestbook at Eschellon.com

The guestbook.pl file has been modified and uploaded to the cgi-bin directory with the following settings:

Permissions: 755

#!/usr/bin/perl

# url of script
$cgiurl = "http://www.eschellon.com/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl";

# base url to all guestbook files without trailing "/"
$bookurl = "http://www.eschellon.com/book";

# base directory to all guestbook files from the server root without trailing "/"
$base_dir = "/hsphere/local/home/rfunkman/eschellon.com/book";

[Web Host lists the following: Home Directory = /hsphere/local/home/rfunkman ]

[Web Host lists the following: HTML Directory = /hsphere/local/home/rfunkman/eschellon.com ]

The book directory is located at http://www.eschellon.com/book

I can log in as administrator, but nothing from there ( any documentation ?? )

Also, if I try to add an entry via addentry.html or guestbook.html an error occurs....

Cannot create ID file guest_id.txt in hsphere/local/home/rfunkman/eschellon.com/book. Please check your base directory.

Any help would be appreciated...I know I'm close

Thanks in advance.

Peter
Atlanta Georgia USA