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benwalsh — GMT

[color="darkblue"] need help to install Advanced Guestbook, and will shout you a beer for your troubles.
if you can come to sunny Queensland Australia I will join you in a xxxx
else I will paypal, or whatever, money today if you can solve my problem.
1) I know very little about php and nothing about mysql
2) I have used advanced guestbook on hosting accounts where it was a one click install but this host does not include it (they are more the full on php nuke).
3) any way I have uploaded the files and set permissions on /adminand /tmp.
4) created a db by clicking blindly in plesk control panel.
5) edited /admin/config.inc.php to read:
[code]$GB_DB["dbName"] = "***";
$GB_DB["host"] = "localhost";
$GB_DB["user"] = "***";
$GB_DB["pass"] = "***"; [/code]
this seems to have worked, I had to change it when my first two attempts were wrong, and watched the error messages playout in my browser.
6) till I reached Error Number: 1146 Table 'spec.book_config' doesn't exist,
I assume this means that I have not set the tables in my db and was hoping that some thirsty folk would show me how.
7) I can send you ftp password but ask that you not only fix it but explain how you did it.
8) Thanks, & it's my Wally Grout (shout).
Ben from Oz[/color]

Auron — GMT

Have you tried running install.php after setting up the config file to
[i]create[/i] the database, tables and fields?

That worked

benwalsh — GMT

I owe you a beer Auron.

Sorry to get of the subject but I am worried about googlebot she has stopped spidering our main site 48 hours now when normally visits twice a day, also backlinks have been up and down. solve me the algorithm and I by you the pub.

Auron — GMT

I read somewhere googlebot goes round the web visiting sites and you'll
get a visit from the bot every 30-45 days or something like that. So long
as you have one page linking to all the others googlebot will be able to
get all of your site.

The easiest way to do this is create a file with links to
every other [i]useful[/i] page on your site and then go to google' homepage
and add that url to their list of sites to spider thus [b]kind of[/b] making sure
you whole site gets spidered and listed.

Auron

benwalsh — GMT

certainly what you say about linking is correct, but i must disagree with how often googlebot visits, If your site is highly ranked and has regularly changing content she will visit daily or even mmore

Trevor — GMT

Talking about the Googlebot...

It's supposed to be denied from my guestbook by a robots.txt file and also noindex nofollow meta-tags but it's still indexing the pages. I thought Googlebot was supposed to be well behaved and follow orders. Any suggestions for blocking it and other bots.

As for frequency of visits, looking at site stats for Aug - the Googlebot visited the high ranking main pages between 1 and 4 times a day and reindexed the entire site on the 1st, 17th and 30th with most pages only being visited during a full index. New pages seem to take a while (up to 8 weeks) for an initial visit but are then revisited about every 2 weeks. It also paid 4000 short visits to the site indexing between 1 and 100 pages at a time.

As for the algorithm - try solving the meaning of life, it'll be a lot easier.

Trevor

benwalsh — GMT

try adding [code][/code]
to head tag

how does one edit images and change the order of entries?

amber222 — GMT

Hey, Trevor.

I got that you are already using the above meta tag. Found the following link on the Internet for blocking bad bots that don't follow the rules. Haven't tried it myself yet, but I plan to.

http://www.clockwatchers.com/robots_bad.html

The above tutorial is for Blocking robots via .htaccess

robots.txt

benwalsh — GMT

a robots.txt file must be in the root directory to work, i can not see http://proxy2.de/robots.txt and i can not see a robots meta tag in this doc?

I have got my guestbook working on new site except for thumbs, how do I get Image Magick or PHP's GD extension happening

amber222 — GMT

[quote="Trevor"]Talking about the Googlebot...

It's supposed to be denied from my guestbook by a robots.txt file and also noindex nofollow meta-tags but it's still indexing the pages. I thought Googlebot was supposed to be well behaved and follow orders. Any suggestions for blocking it and other bots. [/quote]

[quote="benwalsh"]a robots.txt file must be in the root directory to work, i can not see http://proxy2.de/robots.txt and i can not see a robots meta tag in this doc? [/quote]

benwalsh, we aren't speaking of the proxy2.de site. We are just here sharing what we learned while setting up Advanced Guestbook and Advanced Poll on our own sites.

[quote="benwalsh"]I have got my guestbook working on new site except for thumbs, how do I get Image Magick or PHP's GD extension happening[/quote]
If it really is a GD extension issue, maybe you need to ask your host about. But first you might want to make sure you didn't overwrite something. Did you customize the guestbook? Maybe post a link here so someone can look at the code.

amber222 — GMT

Auron — GMT

The 30-45 days figure i quoted should of been how long it takes
googlebot to spider your site after submitting it to them. How often
they spider your site changes. The more people who link to you
will allow googlebot to follow those links back your site again and
again.

JTD — GMT

Me personally I dont mind googlebot. It is the other bs bots I dont want.

Carbonize — GMT

Should be grateful it was only 48 hours. Googlebot used to spider my site about 30 times a day then suddenly it stopped. Three months went by without a single hit from googlebot except when I faked my useragent to check it wasn't blocked. I emailed Google and they said nothing was wrong and my site wasn't banned or anything. After four months google bot started to return in trickles and is now back up to about 30-40 visits a day.

Carbonize — GMT

[quote="Trevor"]Talking about the Googlebot...

It's supposed to be denied from my guestbook by a robots.txt file and also noindex nofollow meta-tags but it's still indexing the pages. I thought Googlebot was supposed to be well behaved and follow orders. Any suggestions for blocking it and other bots.

Trevor[/quote]

There is no guarantee it was really googlebot. I myself have spoofed the googlebot useragent when testing various sites and I know some people always spoof it. The real googlebot will honour any orders placed in a robots.txt file as will most bots. Email harvesters wont honour this though. The only 100% certain way to block bots is by writing a php script that gets the user agent string and recognises every known bot. Upon recognising a bot stop loading the page. Place this in every page and the bots will just leave your site.

Trevor — GMT

Thanks everyone,

I'm not on Apache so can't use .htaccess which is what most of the above need.

Looked at the stats from some different sites, impression I get is that once a bot has indexed a site it comes back even if you subsequently block it with robots.txt and meta-tags.

Thanks again.

Trevor

benwalsh — GMT

[size="11"][url]http://www.google.com/webmasters/3.html#removed[/url]

suggests you use[/size]
[code][/code]
[size="11"]in the head and[/size]
[code]User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /guestbook/path[/code]
[size="11"]in robots.txt placed in root directory[/size]

[color="blue"]ps how do I get my host to install image magick or is it GD, or can I use a script that I install my self to create thumbs for the images in AdvancedGuestbook?

my other host has imagick and all is well, but our new guestbook is resizing the thumbs but not creating a new optimised file.[/color]

JTD — GMT

I think most use GD. You might ask them but I dought they will. Usually also in apps that use something like that to resize a pic there is a spot to put the path of the program IE GD image magick and so on. I havnt seen a place in the GB admin to do that.

GD not working

benwalsh — GMT

I asked my [url=http://www.betteroff.net/][u]host[/u][/url] about this he says that "GD Library is installed, it does what you want" how do I get it happening, I wonder .....

any clues on where to look?

this is a commercial use of your script, we are happy to leave credit and link in place and we would also like to offer small payment.

Carbonize — GMT

Have you edited the script in anyway ?

benwalsh — GMT

yes I have hacks/mods, so have installed a nice vanilla gb and still same problems

and one new one after submit

Warning: unlink(index.html): Permission denied in /home/httpd/vhosts/qps2000.com/httpdocs/test2/lib/add.class.php on line 80

though messages are posted could this be related to the thumbs not being optimised.

gb is at
[url]http://www.qps2000.com/test2[/url]
admin still default password

Carbonize — GMT

The last problem is down to your folders not having the right permissions. tmp and public both need to be chmod'd to 777.

benwalsh — GMT

Correct thanks Carbonize

but still thumbs are not optomised???

shame i like this host but will have to move again if I can not fix this

amber222 — GMT

When the javascript popup is working, the source code reads:

[code][/code]

Yours is missing the "t_" and just reads:

Carbonize probably has a solution.

amber222 — GMT

Looking at your source code again, I did notice that your base url looks different than the path. Check your base url in admin/config.inc.php and maybe put the full path.

Carbonize — GMT

It's the same on my guestbook. The image in the entry is just the full size version from the public directory resized using html. I'll look into why it's not making thumbnails as it should be.

benwalsh — GMT

I have used this script on another site that has imagemagick and all is well see [url]http://www.oregangalleries.com/billboards/[/url]

my question remains what do we do on a host that does not have imagemagick but does have GD?

Hope you can solve this Mr Carbonize, if I get any clues I will post them here