Guestbook Manager

Feature Overview A guest book is a web page that allows visitors to your site to post comments to you and to other visitors. It is a good tool to collect testimonials and customer feedback. The link to the guestbook is http://YourDomainName/guestbook/guestbook.html . The Guestbook Manager allows you to install and manage a guestbook on your web site.  

To install your guestbook:
1 Enter your password and email address.
2 Chose whether you would like email notification when your guestbook is signed.
3 Click Install Guestbook Software.

Administering your Guestbook To access simple instructions on how to use the guestbook, click Instructions and Documentation. A page will open telling you what a guestbook is, how to sign it, and how to administer it.

To delete a post:
1 Click the Administration link, from the guestbook page
2 Enter your password and click Submit.
3 Enter the ID number of to the post you want to delete (the ID is displayed to the left of the post in your guestbook).
4 Enter your password again.
5 Click Submit.

To view a particular entry:
1 Click the Administration link, from the guestbook page.
2 Enter your password and click Submit.
3 Enter the ID of the post you wish to view.
4 Enter your password again.
5 Click Submit.

To access your guestbook from within the Guestbook Manager: Click on Access this tool on your domain. Your guestbook will open.
To view the guestbook elsewhere: The address to the guestbook is http://YourDomainName/guestbook/guestbook.html.

To sign your guestbook:
1 From your guestbook page, click Sign the Guestbook.
2 Enter your information into the text fields. Fields with an asterisk are required.
3 Click Sign Book.

Technical Information about Configuration Installing your guestbook creates puts guestbook.pl in your cgi-bin directory. This file may be edited to do the following:
Changing the number of entries per page The default number of entries per page is 20. To change this, open guestbook.pl, and scroll down to a set of lines that look like this: For more information # guestbook entries per page; $entries = 20; Change the number beside $entries to however many entries you would like per page.
Handling of HTML tags Your guestbook’s handling of HTML tags is determined in a set of lines in guestbook.pl, and look like this: # allow html tags - 0=no; 1=yes; 2=translate $html_tags = "2";
Your choices are no ( $html_tags = “0”; ), yes ( $html_tags = “1”; ), and translate ( $html_tags = “2”; ).
No ignores HTML tags. For example, your site is <strong>great</strong>, would appear as your site is great.
Yes allows and interprets HTML tags. Your site is <strong>great</strong> will appear as Your site is great.

Translate inserts the entry into your guestbook exactly as typed. Your site is <strong>great</strong> will appear as Your site is <strong>great</strong>.

Censoring bad words You may choose to censor offensive (bad) words from your guestbook. Censoring behavior is determined by the following two lines:
$remove_bad_words = "yes"; @bad_words = ("darn"); If you would like to allow offensive words in your guestbook, set $remove_bad_words = “no”; . Otherwise, leave it set to yes . You may also edit the list of those words your guestbook will consider offensive. Simply enter words you wish to censor in double quotes, separated by commas, between the parentheses after @bad_words = . For example, if you wish to censor the words “computer” and “keyboard” from your guestbook, the code will look like this: $remove_bad_words = "yes"; @bad_words = ("computer",”keyboard”);

Web Calendar

Feature Overview WebCalendar is a PHP calendar system that can be used by one or more persons. The Web Calendar Manager allows you to manage a web calendar on your website. To install Web Calendar:

1 Make sure that MySQL has been enabled. If it is not, exit the Web Calendar Manager, enable MySQL, and then come back.
2 Chose a directory to which the calendar software will be installed.
3 If your MySQL password is different than your Control Panel password, click the check box and enter your MySQL password in the form-field.
4 Note the default username and password (you will be able to change them after installation).
5 Click Install Web Calendar. You will receive a confirmation telling you that your request will be completed within ten (10) minutes.

Using WebCalendar Click on Instructions and Documentation to access simple instructions on how to use the Web Calendar. It will tell you what a web calendar is, and how to administer it. Click on Access this tool on your domain, to access the web calendar on your site, and to set up a web calendar. You will be prompted for the default username and password. Clicking on This tool's website will open a page with information on the web calendar. Note: An extensive help system can be accessed from within the application.

Poll Manager

Feature Overview Poll Manager allows you to manage polls that you would like to have running on your website. The first time you access Poll Manager, you will need to install it by clicking Install Poll Software. You will receive a confirmation that the request will be completed within ten (10) minutes. For detailed instructions and commands for setting up a poll, click on Instructions and Documentation.

Network Query Manager

Feature Overview The Network Query Manager is available for your domain. This tool is a one-stop solution for getting information about a domain or IP address . The Network Query Manager can perform the following functions when installed on your domain:

Resolve/ Reverse lookup converts an IP to a hostname (if one exists) or vice versa.
Get DNS Records converts a hostname to an IP, and may display additional information, depending on the domain entered .
Whois (WWW) gets domain registration information. Supports .com , .net , .org , .edu , .name , .info , .us , .cc , .ws , .biz .
Whois (IP) gets IP owner information. Supports all IP blocks maintained by ARIN (US), RIPE (Europe), JPNIC ( Japan), APNIC (China/Asia-Pacific), and REG-BR ( Brazil).
Check port determines whether a port on the target host is open. The default is port 80.
Traceroute to host traces and times the route between your domain and the address you specify.

To install the Network Query Manager: Click Install Network Query Software from the Network Query Manager. A confirmation page will display, informing you that your request will be completed within ten (10) minutes.
To view the Network Query Tool on your domain:
1 Click Access this tool on your domain.
2 Click on the operation you wish to perform, and enter a host or IP into the box.
3 Click Do It, and the results of the action will apeear.

NetBuilder

Feature Overview NetBuilder is a full-featured web-based database management program, NetBuilder was designed to allow you to administer, manipulate, and search on your data from a web based interface. Note: If you do not have a NetBuilder database, you must add one to use this application.

To use NetBuilder: After adding a database, click Sign into NetBuilder. Note: Your username and login should be the same as your Control panel username and password. You will need to select a database to work with. Select the database and type its name into the Select Database box, then click Select. Navigation through NetBuilder is accomplished in two different ways. You can easily reach any feature in the application with one click of the mouse.

• Use the Menu Bar at the top of each screen to find the desired option, and then scroll down (and over) to click on the feature you wish to use.
• You may also move through the system using the various Section Menus. Detailed instructions about using NetBuilder can be found in the NetBuilder User Guide.

Invision PowerBoard (Message Board)

Feature Overview Invision Power Board is an award-winning forum software and communications portal. Members can subscribe to topics, be notified when someone replies to that thread, send each other private messages, view statistics, and perform several other functions. Moderators will be pleased to find a powerful administration control panel that includes the abilities to open, close, lock/ unlock (pin/ unpin), move, and delete topics as well edit and delete individual posts. Invision Power Board is written in PHP and requires that you install a MySQL database.

To install the Invision PowerBoard:
1 If you do not have a MySQL database, add one before you install Invision PowerBoard.
2 To install the Invision PowerBoard you must accept the Terms of Agreement from Invision Power Services (IPS).
3 Choose the directory you wish the board to be installed in.
4 Enter your username, password, and email address.
5 If your MySQL password is not the same as your Control Panel password, check the box and enter your MySQL password.
6 Click Install Invision Board. You will see a confirmation message informing you that your request will be completed within ten (10) minutes. You are now able to use the Invision Power Board on your sites.

ht://Dig User’s Guide

Feature Overview The ht://Dig Website Search Engine is a website search tool that can be installed to your domain to search your website. The ht://Dig system is a complete World Wide Web indexing and searching system for a domain or intranet. It does not replace search engines, such as Lycos, or Google. Instead, it handles search needs within a particular website. ht://Dig Website Search Engine performs three major functions: digging , merging , and searching .

Digging ht://Dig uses the term digging instead of harvesting or gathering . While digging, ht://Dig follows all hyperlinks it comes across. Each document is examined and any unique words in it are extracted and stored in the following two files, a list of all words and a database of all the URLs.

Merging The data gathered in the digging process must be converted into information the search engine can use through an htmerge program. This merges data gathered from several databases with the new information gathered during the digging phase.

Searching This stage uses the information found to search the domain(s). The information found in the searches of the domains is displayed as HTML.

Using ht://Dig Click Search your Site to search through the content on your website for a particular word or phrase. This acts as a search engine for you website only, not the entire Internet.

ht://Dig search options:
All searches for all words in the field
Any searches for any word in the field.
Boolean limits your search. Examples of Booleans include and , or , and not . For example, "cat and dog", "cat or dog", "cat not dog".

ht://Dig search categories:
Score gives a score in stars, for example four out of five stars
Time sorts by most recently updated
Title sorts by the title of what is being searched
Reverse Score shows the lowest rated matches first
Reverse Time shows the least recently updated files first
Reverse Title shows the least relevant titles first

Re-indexing your Site Click Re-index your Site manually re-index your site and enter new words and phrases to be searched. ht://Dig will automatically re-index your site once a week. Once you have clicked Re-index Your Site, you will be asked to wait while your site is re-indexed. The process takes only a few of seconds, and a confirmation will be displayed upon completion.

Placing a search tool on your website The ht://Dig Website Search Engine also gives you an option of cutting and pasting text into any of your HTML pages to have a simple search tool right on your website. To do this, go to your Control Panel and scroll down to Website Management, and click on File Manager. This displays your personal website controls. Click on either www or <domain>.www. Next, click index.html. This displays a box in which you may cut and paste the commands displayed on the ht://Dig Website Search Engine page.

Web Counter

Feature Overview Web Counter allows you place a counter on your website, showing how many hits you have received.
To include the counter on a web page: The Web Counter must be placed on an SHTML document. An SHTML document is simply an HTML document with an .shtml extension. Include the following code in your page: <!--#include virtual='/cgi-bin/counter.pl' -->

Configuring Web Counter All configuration will be done with files located in the <domain>-www/cgi-bin/ directory. This counter cannot be configured so that it doesn’t count visits from a certain IP.

To change whether the counter increments when the page is reloaded:
1 Open the vars.inc file.
2 Look for the IP locking section, which looks like this:
# IP locking (counter doesn't increments when page is reloaded)
# 1=yes 0=no
$lock_ip =0;
$ip_lock_timeout =30; # in minutes

3 If $lock_up is set to 0 , the page will only count visits that take place less often than the $ip_lock_timeout . If $lock_ip is set to 1 , then the counter will count every time the page is loaded, regardless of whether it’s a refresh, or a new visit.

4 $ip_lock_timeout determines the length of time that has to pass before any particular visitor will count again.