Slow John Here, step by step guestbook Q

[tmax]

Hello, I tried not to bother you guys with this... but it took me about a week and I realized that I'm not getting any younger.
So, I have to ask you pros again. Help me out. I'm slow, you have to talk to me in the easy sentences, step by step. Sorry.

I'm trying to install my own guestbook. I'm using the one FQ offers for free.
I'm using CGI script editor to edit the file.
and uploading via FTP using ASCII mode.

following are my Q's.

What do I do with all the instructions in ################ ##################
############### ##################
this stuffs? do I erase them? or leave them?
or it doesn't matter?

After following instruction and editing them, what do I do? Do I change the file name to guestbook.cgi and upload into cgi-bin?

And then I should link it to -
http://www.hollywoodband.com/cgi-bin/
guestbook.cgi

What if I still get the message saying "CGI scrip error" what should I look into?

I hope this question is very easy for some of you guys. I am trying to learn more funky stuffs as I have to make my own bulletin board and stuffs...

If you know any sites that teaches these basic cgi subject, please let me know. I've been into many "tutor" sites, and they all say....
"Install your script, and Bingo~! it's that simple~!" and they wouldn't tell me how to install them step by step.

Thank you, and God bless

[Del]

I'm assuming you're using the FQuest one (as opposed to susogi or lil's).

Every line that starts with a # is a comment (in the guestbook.setup.cgi file, not true for all other scripts). That means you can go ahead and leave it there and not worry about it, Perl will ignore it.

I personally have not installed the guestbook, so I can't really help much with it. However, if you are indeed on an FQuest account, you can log in via FTP and check out your error logs. There are two of them supplied, /big/dom/xdomain/logs_web/error and /big/dom/xdomain/logs_cgi/script

The former is a standard Apache error log, scroll all the way down to view the latest entries. The latter is a special from Terra that thoroughly describes nothing but CGI errors (and is very very handy!) Either one should explain exactly what the problem is.

Hope this helps a bit,


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[Del]

Forgot something, an answer to your tutorial question.

Check out http://www.cgi101.com/class/



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[tmax]

Thank you, God bless.