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Guest Book (not advanced gb) - admin actions

mrgad — GMT

I've finally managed to install Guest Book, and it's working perfectly.

Except I made some dummy entries to test it out, and now I'd like to delete them.

I click on administration. It asks for password. I enter it. It takes me to the Admin page. And then I have to enter:

Selected page, Action, Entry ID, Password

On this page I am not seeing any of the guestbook entries - not sure if this is normal.

Let's say I want to delete entry #1, I tried entering:

guestbook.html, delete, 1, mypassword

then i click submit, but nothing happens (when i go to the guestbook, entry #1 is still there.)

So, what ACTIONS can I use in Administration? How can I view guestbook? How can I edit or delete certain entries?

THANK YOU!

Carbonize — GMT

Given that all guestbooks on this site are advanced guestbooks I'll take a a guess you are refering to version 1.5?

Yes.

mrgad — GMT

Yes, 1.5 guest book. Exactly.

Carbonize — GMT

OK well Amber is the resident Advanced Guestbook 1.5 person so will have to wait for her to visit.

amber222 — GMT

Sorry I am just now seeing this since Carbonize emailed me about it. Thanks for the vote of confidence, Carb - but I really don't know that much about this script. I do know that Admin lists the guestbook entries with their ID numbers just below the table mrgad mentioned. So, to delete an entry, you just need to type in the Entry ID number. "Delete" automatically appears in the "Action" box, and you only have to enter your password and click on "submit". If your Admin panel is not showing the listings, you are probably missing something. Check to make sure you have all 11 files in the book directory and you set the correct paths in the guestbook.pl (or guestbook.cgi) file. The guestbook.pl file permissions should be set to 755.

In the guestbook.pl file, I had to change "localhost" to the exact address. Here's how that code looks:

[code]$cgiurl = "http://www.mywebsite.com/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl";

# administration password
$admin_pass = "123";

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

# base directory to all guestbook files from the server root without trailing "/"
$base_dir = "/home/myusername/public_html/book";[/code]

In the above, change "mywebsite" to your actual site name and "myusername" to the username for CPanel.

You also have to make sure line 7 in addentry.html shows the correct path:
[code]

cgi-bin guestbook 1.5 question

Anonymous — GMT

Hi,

I guess this is the place to ask. Sorry for the email to info...

You have made a very nice work with those scripts... putting them under
the gpl license is also very nice from you...
I've been trying to employ your guestbook 1.5 but I have a question and
maybe you can help me: I am not root on the localhost, so that I cannot
create a folder cgi-bin where to put the guestbook.pl like

www.localhost/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl

The only thing I can do is something like

www.localhost/mydirectory/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl

And this seems not to be working. The perl script is called but only in read mode even though I did a chmod uoga+rx guestbook.pl

The place to look at is

http://www.aei.mpg.de/~pau/llibre_fitxers/llibre.html

am I doing something wrong?

thanks,

Pau