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Thanks for the referral to www.hotscripts.com, what a great resource! I ended up at www.cgiscript.net and found a short Javascript piece that did the trick ... had it up and functioning in minutes. (Did I mention that there is another ton of stuff on this site!) Also, for another blog, I wanted a Quote of the Day item ... not one that I populated, but that would draw from a QOTD site on the net. I found Best Quote of the Day at http://home.att.net/~quotations/. Another short Javascript piece that pulls up a daily quote. ... plug and play! Jeff

I played with it a bit more ... never did get it to display a text line. And if you move the .randhtml file, then when you go back to the Cpanel edit/control, it doesn't see what you had saved before, etc. and will just create another file in the root folder. Oh, well .... Thanks for your help! Jeff

OK .... saw your comment about the root dir ... let me know ... THANKS! ________ OK It looks like I would want my shtml file in a folder containing a cgi-bin folder containing the randhtml.cgi file. Or am I making this too difficult? If not where is the randhtml.cgi file created ... just copy the corresponding cgi-bin folder where I want it, or am I off in the weeds??

OK, I must be having a lapse of brain function ... I haven't been able to make this work. Does the tag line have to reside within the html body? Does it have to be wrapped in something like img src ... Do you paste it in literally like it is presented: <!--#exec cmd="cgi-bin/randhtml.cgi"--> or some "edited" version of the line? Does the shtml file have to live in a particular folder ... Duh?

Thanks, Mike and Jack! Easy, the way I like it! Jeff

How do you limit access to a site via requiring a login ID and password? Thanks, Jeff

woooot OK ... THANKS! Jeff

Good, I'll try it! Now, if I want to change the list of text lines .. are they stashed where they would be editable ... or do you just repeat the process with your new list each time? And are the text items text only (no html tags, etc.)? Thumbs Up

What does this CGI Script do? Are there any instructions on using it (if needed once one understands what it does)?

No one mentioned the Creative Commons offering ... seems like that would be a way to at least announce what copyright parameters you want to use with your materials. Jeff

Hello All, What other blogging apps are hostable on the TCH servers? I have Moveable Type up and running for a commentary-type blog. I understand Greymatter is not allowed for some tecnical reason. What about b2, WordPress? Are there others? I'm looking for something free, or very low cost (and ease of install and operation would be a BIG plus) ... that "allows" "commercial" useage. MT wants $150 for a commercial license, my idea is just not THAT commercial! Jeff

WOOOOWHOOOO! OK, the AHA! has ocurred! I think fixing the path part helped, but the real gotcha was the path specified for the output file in the MT management program. I did not have a path specified ...just the default target file ... like index.html for the Main Index. So, after adding the full path ... it's working! Don't know where it was trying to write the files to before ... seems like it would have caused an error ...... Thanks for your help! Jeff

Is there a Moveable Type discussion area in the Total Choice Family Forums someone might point me to? Here's my problem anyway ... I have a MT installation, sort of working. I think the gist of my problems is from not having proper paths defined in the WebLog config set-up .... If via CPanel in my account my MT installation is at /public_html/blogname/MT What should my local site path (and local archive path) be entered in the Weblog Config? Or should I go with a relative path ... what would that be? If you look at the main index.html file, there are a number of lines using the URL of the location of the blog ... where does this come from (to be used in the index.html code?) What symptoms do I see? I can edit the templates and such from the MT management program ... but when I save and rebuild, nothing changes (and yes, I've cleared the browser cache, etc.) Any MT experts out there? Yes ... I confess to be an absolute novice (translate: moron) in this blog stuff and the world of cgi scripts and such ... but I think I'm one AHA! from getting this thing to work! Thanks!