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I had a job to get them to pay for the hosting site I put them with and that was only £29.99 for two years. I had a look at the sites you mentioned carbonize, and the buttons are not bad. I can make them in photoshop quite easily but I made their site as simple as possible for free, so won't be going over the top. It takes me a lot of time as I write everything by hand in notepad, but I am retired so have the time.
I have to upload the script to the same folder as the guestbook.pl which is the cgi folder, and that one is called book

Thanks! I'll try it

how u do option 2

2 - Alter the name of the Name input.

Thank for keep helping me. I wrote the site free, for a new band and they couldn't afford an expensive hosting site so I uploaded this to streamline net for two years quite cheap. here is the url to check the source
http://www.1waytraffic.co.uk/home.htm
and more informsation from the hosts
This is the top part of the script that I downloaded from this site

#!/usr/bin/perl
#########################################################################
# Guestbook v1.51 #
# Copyright (c)2000 Chi Kien Uong #
# URL: http://www.proxy2.de #
# #
# This Software is distributed under the GNU General Public #
# License. For more details see license.txt #
# #
# Administration: #
# http://www.host.com/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl?admin=enter # Do I need to change this?
# #
# For more stuff visit --> http://www.proxy2.de #
#########################################################################

# url of script
$cgiurl = "http://localhost/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl"; Do I need to change this?

# base url to all guestbook files without trailing "/"
$bookurl = "http://localhost/book"; Do I need to change this?

# base directory to all guestbook files from the server root without trailing "/"
$base_dir = "/home/usr/you/book";

# name of guestbook files
$book_file = "guestbook.html"; Do I need to change this?
$id_count = "guest_id.txt";
$page_count = "page_id.txt";
$sample = "template.html";

this gb got a lot of spam messages?

ppl from nowhere keep posting on my guestbook with pron, ads messages? how you prevent this?

Thank you for answering my post. I have copied it to a notepad and will have a look at it slowly to see if I can grasp it.
I have copied what the host has let me know so perhaps you may see something I have overlooked, or more to the point what I don't understand.

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My perl/cgi script asks for the absolute path to my site, what is this?

/home/domains/mydomain.com/user/htdocs

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

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What is the path to Perl?

/usr/bin/perl

Linux Features:
- CGI, C, Perl AND Python scripting support: CGI scripts are small applications that run within your webspace and can provide interactivity. Common CGI scripts include Guestbooks and Forms. Our servers support the three most popular CGI scripting languages, Perl, C/C++ and Python.

All our servers run on brand new Windows 2003 and Linux Redhat.
I can't find out what system my site is using Linux or Windows

Could anybody please help with the explanation of trying to set up a guestbook with the code below? I have never tried this before, but the hosting company do give you access to a cgi-bin, so thought I would try to do this myself. I am now lost.

1.Open guestbook.pl with a text editor. (I use Notepad)

Change the url in line one, to the Perl program at your server.
Usually it is: - /usr/bin/perl or /usr/local/bin/perl for Unix. ( Already the correct path for Host files}
- C:/Perl/Perl.exe for Windows (use slash "/")
Set the correct paths and required urls. (Where do you do this, In the .pl ? and what do you change ? )
2.Upload guestbook.pl in ASCII-mode to your cgi-bin directory
and change mode it to 755 (-rwxr-xr-x). (I have done this but do not understand why)
3.Open addentry..html with a text editor.
Change the line
<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl"> ( Don’t understand this either,
but I changed it to this as this was the path given by Hosting site.)
http://home/domains/mywebsite.co.uk it said without the www./user/htdocs/cgi-bin/Guestbook.pl"
to the correct location of guestbook.pl
Then nothing happens when I click on my guestbook url

Sorry but you must think I am a complete beginner, but I would appreciate any help

I found another sample of this hack at http://www.stadiumguide.com/guestbook/

Apparently this individual is searching out all html enabled guestbooks with version 2.3.1

The following code was submitted to my guesbook (version 2.3.1) which allowed a hacker to take over the index.php page:

r00t_System
<div id=\"post\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 1024; height: 2500; z-index: 1; overflow: auto\"> <table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" height=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\" valign=\"top\"><tr><td width=\"100%\" valign=\"top\">
<font style=\"color: #ffffff\">    r00t_System ownz here by M<u>aMa </u><br><br>    #rsy - irc.gigachat.net - olinuxbrasil@bol.com.br<br><img src=\"http://www.regionofdoomforum.com/Upload/userfiles/r00t/r00t.jpg\" border=0\">
<br>admin attention on configuration!</font></td></tr></table></div>

When I looked at the source code on that particular page, I saw the following code:

<a href="admin.php?action=edit&tbl=gb&id=164&record=123&session=7fcc9a9fbecadc97ff8cb1ef8fb88d1b&uid=1">edit</a><br>
<a href="admin.php?action=del&tbl=gb&id=164&session=7fcc9a9fbecadc97ff8cb1ef8fb88d1b&uid=1">delete</a>

Is there a fix for this. I was able to regain the page through the php control panel but I'd rather not have to do that again.

Please reply to kenroar at yahoo.com

How to get comments under the poll
What's wrong with my poll, my lovely poll.

Is anybody out there to help me?

Anyway...I wish to all of you the best.
dunga-dunga

How can I include the link of previous polls in the latest poll ? I want my site visitors to be able to see the previous poll results along with the latest poll.

If it's possible i want both

Hej Poeple

I want to now if you can put pictures in the Poll?

And if its possible how to do it?

Greetz KlAdBlOk

Hackers are a widespread problem on guestbooks these days. Lists of guestbooks with posting URLs circulate among spammers, particularly in Europe.

Using the IP Number Ban List in the General Settings part of admin can help a lot. I have found that you have to have at least two sections to an IP number when you add it (12. won't work, but 12.36. will).

If you can't determine the IP number from the captured IP address for a visitor, a free account at SpamCop (spamcop.net) will let you enter the address and interpret it for you.

However, what I WOULD REALLY LIKE (I can dream, can't I?) is for visual confirmation authorization to be added to the guestbook posting process. That is, where a graphical key is shown that you need to type into an authentication box in order to post. Bots can't do it.

This is available in the bulletin board script I use (phpBB) and is great!

I'm making a new site, but when I tried integroting Advanced guestbook into my site, follow problem occured:
The site structure is:
index.php:

***********
Include Menu.php
***********
Include all the other page's (Home.php,...) done with switch-function.

But, now, if I include index.php of the guestbook (index.php?Page=Guestbook), everything is ok sofar. But when I click on a link, my Menu.php disappears and all I see is the guestbook...
Could someone help me?