Java Guestbook v1.0

Finally, I have a chance to finish this program... In order to run it, you must be able to run perl scripts on your system and cgi scripts on your web server. This program is a shareware, you can try it for 30 days (it will be expired after 30 days). If you decide to keep it after 30 days, please buy a registered copy at $14.99. I'll post more information later...

Download (Last update: 11/18/97 09:25PM) Java Guestbook v1.0.
Note: Make sure you get the updated version, more bugs will be fixed as time goes on! The cgi script including in this package only be tested on Unix, it might or might not work on NT servers... I'll make it available for NT when I have more time.

I'm sorry that I don't have time to write documentation for the Guestbook now, I might do it later... here is a quick installations guide. If you have any questions or suggestions, please send e-mail to mchan@ebbets.poly.edu.

Step by step installations on Unix systems

after you download the package, move it to your html direcotry, for example, all my html files are held in a directory named public_html:
% mv gb1_0.tar.gz /home/mchan/public_html
unzip and untar the package
% gunzip gb1_0.tar.gz % tar -xvf gb1_0.tar
a directory named guestbook will be created, change your current working directory to guestbook and mv the cgi scripts to your web server's cgi directory
% cd guestbook % mv guest.cgi cgi-lib.pl /home/mchan/public_html/cgi-bin
now, change your current working directory to your cgi directory, edit the script guest.cgi with your favorite text editor, change the configurations according to your system and save it.
% cd /home/mchan/public_html/cgi-bin % vi guest.cgi
the last step is to change the permission flag for the script and run it.
% chmod 0755 guest.cgi % guest.cgi

You will see some output looks like the following:
GuestBook database file created on Sat Nov 8 03:39:08 EST 1997 GuestBook lock file created on Sat Nov 8 03:39:08 EST 1997

There's a sample html file named guest.html in your guestbook directory, change the parameters according to your system. Detail descrptions for parameters are listed below:

Param	Value
cgi-bin	Your server's cgi script directory. example: < param name=cgi-bin value="http://ebbets.poly.edu/mchan/cgi-bin/"> IMPORTANT: Please remember to put a "/" at the end of the directory!!!!
name	The window frame title. (Optional)
banner	A banner message will be displayed when the guestbook applet is loaded. If this parameter is not set, the default message, "Sign My Guestbook", will be displayed. (Optional)
bgcolor	background color of the banner. (Optional)
fontsize	sets the font size of the message to be displayed on the banner. Default font size is 20. (Optional)

That's all, folks! Now, try the URL http://your_web_server/guestbook/guest.html to test your guestbook. A jar file (guest.jar) which contains all the class files is also included. If the browser supports jar file format, it will load the jar file instead of each individual class file. It saves the browser a little bit of downloading time. Good Luck!

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