disaster-master — Sun, 09 Dec 2001 09:52:53 +0000

How can i get an image to show up in this guestbook? Do I need to put the image in another file also like the guest book file or the cgi-bin file?

All I can see are the place holders for the image. The code is there.

Wil — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:44:04 +0000

Yeah, running Apache 2 - but only on my local box!! My actual hosting provider is still stuck in the 90's .. even running perl 5.005_03 (1997)!! At least it's stable though, they are waiting for the next release of woody (I think).

Cheers

Mark Hensler — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 08:02:40 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Wil
Mark

Hmm. Mine was set up (as default installation - version 2) to default to

version 2 of what? Are you running Apache 2? *drool* I've read a bit about it, but I'm going to wait for it to come out of beta before I install it.

disaster-master — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 05:51:45 +0000

Thanks guys and Suzanne. I changed the htaccess file and now it goes to the .shtml page. The counter works and the guestbook works.

Now I can concentrate on building new pages and changing everything over.

You all are life savers!!!
And good teachers.

.htaccess

Suzanne — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 05:34:34 +0000

Mark has what you need, just copy what Mark wrote and put it in your .htaccess file and leave the rest untill you know what they are and what they do.

Definitely get rid of the three index pages, that's just going to cause problems. The reason the counter doesn't work on the top domain level is because the default page is index.html, which you now know won't work because it's not parsed by the server.

It doesn't matter if you use Dreamweaver unless they are using some Front Page extensions. From the look of the site, I doubt they are, but if you are cleaning up the code (I recommend you try validating it, for instance), then you will be probably replacing anything that used FP.

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# -FrontPage-
IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*
DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html index.htm

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all

order deny,allow
deny from all

AuthName aavfd.org
AuthUserFile /web/******/******/www/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /web/******/******/www/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Also, just a for future reference bit, you can make any page name the default page for a folder using the DirectoryIndex line. I used it to set carterjackson.com/joshua/photogallery/ to photos.php so I wouldn't have to have an index page in that directory, and could keep the photos in their own directory anyway.

Suzanne

P.S. You don't owe me anything, just keep asking questions and helping! Glad you got the bits working. Now about that guestbook, I recommend you wander to the scripting languages forum and post about it. List the script name, including a link to the source code if applicable, and where you are trying to get it to work, and what, specifically, your errors are. Someone there will be able to steer you in the right direction, hopefully.

Wil — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 18:30:49 +0000

Mark

Hmm. Mine was set up (as default installation - version 2) to default to

index.html index.htm home.html home.htm'

I have to explicity state that I want to turn on SSI and that's why it doesn't assume to pick up a directory index for it. Which makes sense...

disaster-master — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 18:11:43 +0000

Also, like I had mentioned earlier in my post, they have three home pages. I have no idea why.

They are index.html, index.shtml and aavfd3.html. I will fix this but just in case you look at the site and notice this.....I am aware of it.

disaster-master — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 18:06:55 +0000

I thought that might be the problem from reading tutorials. This is what is in the htaccess file. The only thing I have altered here for posting are the ***** in the last two lines. Where do I put what you posted above?
Oh, I don't know if it matters or not but I am using dreamweaver. I suppose the person who originally did the site used FP.
_________________
# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all

order deny,allow
deny from all

AuthName
AuthUserFile /web/******/******/www/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /web/******/******/www/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Mark Hensler — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 17:00:33 +0000

.htaccess should include:

DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html index.htm

'This line sets the priority of the files. The server will look for index.shtml first. If it can't find it, it will look for index.html, and so forth.

Wil — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 10:12:06 +0000

What files have you got in your home directory?

Have you got a index.html and a index.shtml?

Depending on your server set up, the index.html file will have higher precedence over index.shtml and will be the one displayed to the user. And that's where your problem is. You should never have more than one index file in your directory.