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Tools/Code:
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Poster
Leading off is a basic Perl script with built-in password protection
that was designed for a site wanting to update and archive news postings.
Poster (zip) || Poster
(txt) (now in version 1.20) is a snap to install on 'nix systems. The
only config you need to do is:
- Make sure your server can do server-side includes for .shtml files
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Make sure the path to perl is correct (default is #!/usr/bin/perl;)
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Make sure you like the directory the script writes to (default is
../posts)
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Make sure that directory is either non-existent or empty
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Upload script to a fresh directory (suggested is /admin)
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chmod the script to 755
- Password protect according to your tastes (.htaccess suggested)
There's an admin demo that uses the password "password" and a reader's demo. A few homework projects for overachievers
are described in the script's final comments. If you do any of them, please
Flexibility
A great way to get flexibility with this script is to use the text files generated by the current posting and include them withi SSI into your site. For example, you can have the title of the current article appear on your homepage if you do something like this:
<!--#include virtual="/poster/posts/current_title.txt"-->
You could put a link around that, and send people in to your article. Play around with it.
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zahra hakim