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Question#3:
My ISP has a Control Panel that will apparently let you set permissions of files (another adventure.) But then again they tell you not to use the File manager on FP sites (another confusion). Or for that matter if you use some other program to FTP files and change permissions to your FP maintained site, are you heading for trouble?

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If you are referring to setting chmod permissions on the files you upload then forget about control panels and forget about FP. Those things refer to password protecting stuff, this is a different matter. You will do it using WS_FTP.

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Quesiton#4: If I got the files up to the server and in the right places, how do we make the text changes appear on a pre-built FP web page (with graphics) in the location that's desired? Can you address the changes to a table in a FP web page?

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You just need to put this into your page:

<!-----Begin Included Content From Page Updater V4.0------>

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-local/updater/pu.cgi"-->

<!-----End Included Content From Page Updater V4.0----->

I have highlighted the important bit and the following explains it a little.

This bit: <!--#exec cgi=
and this bit: -->
remain the same for all sites.

This bit
"/cgi-local/updater/pu.cgi"
refers to the path to the file on my site. So if your page is in the mail directory - ie where your home page is - your path will be the one to your cgi-bin, whatever it is called, and the script in it.

So it might look something like:

"cgi-bin/directory/pu.cgi"

where cgi-bin is the name of your cgi-bin and directory is the name of the directory within it where you put the script.

To run a command like this you need to be allowed to use Server Side Includes (SSI) by your host - check at their site - and you need to name the page you will be updating with an .shtml extension.

If you cannot use SSI there is a way of doing it with JacaScript but it is more complicated.

Question#4 part 2:

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What will have to be done special for this page to be handled along with the rest of the pages in the FP web? PU4 instructions say to use .shtml, will that still work with FP (no reference in FP2000 Bible)?

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Nothing special. Just put in the SSI call above and rename the page. FP will have no problems with that. Most of my sites have .shtml pages.

I think qestions 6 and 7 should have been answered by the above. I just read question 8 - the answer would seem to be Yes!

A couple of extra things occur to me.


1. CHMOD

This seems to cause a lot of heartache to people and it need not. All it does is define who is allowed do what with a file.

There are 3 digits in a chmod permission - eg 755, 666, etc. The digits refer to the levels of permission accorded to each of three sets of people:

Digit one: refers to the owner, ie you.
Digit two: refers to group, don't worry about that one, it is uusually set the same as ....
Digit three: which refers to the level of access allowed to everyone else.

The three levels of permission you can choose to give to each are given values, and the sum of the values is the chmod. So you can allow each of the above users to

read files (value=4)
write to files (value=2)
execute files (value=1)

So if you set a permission of:
777 - everyone can read, write to and execute the file.
755 - You can read write and execute, everyone else can only read and execute.
666 - everyone can read and write.

and so on.

You do not realy need to know this to apply permissions but it does help to have an idea what it means. It is very very important that you set the chmods as instructed and this is one of the main reasons why scripts fail to work when up loaded.

2. Setting CHMOD in WS_FTP
To do this just right click the file, choose the Chmod option and tick the appropriate boxes. Be aware that what appears when the chmod box comes up it not a report on the files current permission - even if it already shows the permissions you want you still need to click apply. If I remember right all you have to do for this script is set one permission - 755 - so you will be doing something like this ( the red is mine - it will not be there)





That should give you enough to be going on with.

Katherine

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