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 Report any bugs to jasonsilver@crookedbush.com.

 Yours,
 Jason Silver

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Overview:
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 Weblogs are becoming quite popular these days on the Internet.
 The great thing about them is the simple way you can make 
 changes and add content to your site.  Simply type into a browser
 and new information is added automatically! Even let the world
 add to your pages!

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Installation Overview:
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1. Setting some options at the beginning of the script files (*.pl)
2. Using FTP to upload the files
3. Setting permissions on the files

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Here's How!
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1. Create a new directory for your blogs, such as 'blogs.' Upload the following files
   to this directory:
      icon_blog.jpg
      story.lite
      head.lite
      foot.lite
      content_type.lite
      story.html
      head.html
      foot.html
      content_type.html
      index.htm (You might need to rename this to index.shtml)

   CHMOD this directory as '777'


2. Using a text editor like textpad, or notepad, open the *.pl scripts
   Change the path to perl so that it's configured for your server.
   It's usually:
   #!/usr/local/bin/perl 
   or
   #!/usr/bin/perl

   The weblog.pl and weblog_list.pl scripts have the following configurations within them:
     NOTE: This is the BLOSXOM script, with only one or two insignificant modifications...
           If Blosxom is already installed, then you don't need this script.

       $blog_title - What you want your blogs called
       $blog_description - How you describe your blogs
       $blog_language - The language you use (Eg: EN (for outgoing RSS feed))
       $datadir - The path to your blogs folder on the server.
       $depth - The depth the script looks through subfolders to find blogs (=0 for infinite)
       $num_entries - How many blogs to show on home page

   The postblog.pl 2 scripts have the following configurations within it:

       $emailprog - The path to 'sendmail' on your server
       $blog_path - the $datadir as above
       $admin_pass - password for administration of blogs
       $url_to_blogs - the URL to your blogs
       $url_to_post - the URL to this script
       @url_chunks - These are chunks of URL to remove when guessing the folder to save the post in.
       $body_info - Header and body tags to make the Post script look like your site.
 
2. Use an FTP program like WS_FTP or CuteFTP (just some examples I'm aware of) and
   upload the .pl files to your server's cgi-bin.

3. Set permissions (CHMOD) on the *.pl files so they are executable. (755).
   The owner should be able read, write, and execute.
   The group should be able to read, and execute.
   Also, other should be able to read, and execute.

4. Place the tag: <a href="/cgi-bin/postblog.pl?action=resp">Respond to this Page</a> on the
   bottom of all your pages and you will give your visitors a way to interact with your site.
   You can even make all the comments about a given page appear on that page by using the 
   iframe tag.  For an example of this, visit 
   http://www.getchurch.org/staff/jasonsilver.htm

Yours,
Jason Silver

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