I need quick quick help with HTML

Dr_Romulus · #1 (**permalink**) 15th February, 2002, 11:58 PM

How the hell do I code an automatic redirect?? I need to change an old page at Rizenet so it redirects to the new page when it is loaded. The reason is there are literally 50 or so links on 50 or so dirrerent pages and I dont want to take the tme to edit every single page!!

Throw me a one here guys!!!!

Pinky · #2 (**permalink**) 16th February, 2002, 12:21 AM

PM "Superman" and / or "Conrad" and they should be able to answer this rather quickly for you...

Think "AdianII" would also be able to help; as you know Spode is down for the count right now, otherwise he'd be the first one to see.

I personally gave up on learning that level of programming with HTML years ago

, I just use Frontpage for the simple sites I make for various things...

Superman · #3 (**permalink**) 16th February, 2002, 01:07 AM

Anyone here good with CGI and Perl? If so you'd be of great help. I don't know these languages, and the redirection needs to be in a .cgi extension, hence it needs to use CGI.

Dr_Romulus · #4 (**permalink**) 16th February, 2002, 09:48 AM

I'm a CGI n00b myself so I don't know how to fix it either...

*sigh* another damn language i need to read about *sigh*

Superman · #5 (**permalink**) 16th February, 2002, 11:00 AM

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Originally posted by Dr_Romulus
I'm a CGI n00b myself so I don't know how to fix it either...

*sigh* another damn language i need to read about *sigh*

I had a CGI script going on AOA Files before, but then we updated the server or something and CGI didn't work anymore. So I just converted it to PHP. But anyway, there has to be another way.

Spode · #6 (**permalink**) 16th February, 2002, 03:49 PM

can a CGI file contain HTML? If so, use an HTML redirect?

Superman · #7 (**permalink**) 16th February, 2002, 03:58 PM

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Originally posted by Spode
can a CGI file contain HTML? If so, use an HTML redirect?

No, it can't.

What I tried to do was use print statements to write <script language=javascript>location.href="http://www.aoaforums.com/forum/";</script>

But it didn't work right.

GenoIDE · #8 (**permalink**) 20th February, 2002, 10:51 AM

Welll iam an html newbie myself, i just started a few days ago with the intention to learn but heck... i just don't have the time and dedication, plus It is frustrating when you can't get something right, and its not because i don't like it...I'am still trying to figure out Dreamweaver... plus i have ideas of what to design i guess that is the most important part of creating a website, I need to learn some basic things first... Like how to make a text such as "Enter" direct a viewer to a desired place... like make that Enter be clickable to the user... with a desired link like hred "www.www.com". I'am using dreamweaver a good gui that lets me do things such as split my site into frames and do some flash on it if i liked... but I still have to figure that one out.
All i know is that I've started on C++ and HTML and I dropped both after 1-2 days or both... all part of self teaching really does suck.

kplonk · #9 (**permalink**) 26th February, 2002, 03:10 PM

Ok in a cgi do this

print "Location:whereyouwanttogo\n\n";

you need to make sure that you do not have the line

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

in the same scope or this will not work.

hope this helps

Superman · #10 (**permalink**) 26th February, 2002, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kplonk
Ok in a cgi do this

print "Location:whereyouwanttogo\n\n";

you need to make sure that you do not have the line

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

in the same scope or this will not work.

hope this helps

It doesn't matter how you make it redirect, the problem is that our permissions, ownerships, and httpd settings are all screwed up.

Spode · #11 (**permalink**) 26th February, 2002, 07:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Superman53142

It doesn't matter how you make it redirect, the problem is that our permissions, ownerships, and httpd settings are all screwed up.

this is news to me, whats wrong with our httpd settings?

Superman · #12 (**permalink**) 26th February, 2002, 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Spode

this is news to me, whats wrong with our httpd settings?

Appears that it doesn't like CGI scripts or something. But it runs newspro. Is a complete weird thing to me. Maybe they aren't screwed up. But I know I had the exact same problems with the file refusing to execute on my server as on AOA, and it had to do with permissions and ownership. So I was probably just exaggerating

kplonk · #13 (**permalink**) 27th February, 2002, 04:38 AM

what is the file ment to be doing, what do you lack permisions for

Spode · #14 (**permalink**) 27th February, 2002, 04:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Superman53142

Appears that it doesn't like CGI scripts or something. But it runs newspro. Is a complete weird thing to me. Maybe they aren't screwed up. But I know I had the exact same problems with the file refusing to execute on my server as on AOA, and it had to do with permissions and ownership. So I was probably just exaggerating

I was having a problem with a CGI script and then I found out the problem. i uploaded in BINARY mode instead of ASCII.

what did you do?

Dr_Romulus · #15 (**permalink**) 27th February, 2002, 09:14 AM

Holy Crap. I didn't realize that you guys were still talking about this.

To bring the few other up to speed, I have several reviews on the Rizenet server that pointed into my old forums. Well, instead of editing 40 some-odd reviews to remove the link i was trying to get a re-direct written that I could replace the Ultimate.cgi file with so it fired up AOA instead of Rizenet.

It is kinda a moot point now since the link just dies but if I could get it to work it would be awsome.

Problem is my cgi skillz are on the same level with an idaho spud... i have no cgi skillz in other words.

kplonk · #16 (**permalink**) 27th February, 2002, 04:22 PM

what is the address you want to go to and what is the address that is being called at the mo??

Dr_Romulus · #17 (**permalink**) 27th February, 2002, 06:34 PM

Well the address it needs to go to is www.aoaforums.com/forum since all the forum calls need to go here.

There is no address that it is calling anymore. It did call the ubb code front end on the rizenet server, but the file (ultimate.cgi) has been overwritten a few times to try and reroute it here so it doesnt matter now.

All I need is a cgi script that I can put into a file called ultimate.cgi that will force the link to go to the AOA forums.

Superman · #18 (**permalink**) 27th February, 2002, 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Spode

I was having a problem with a CGI script and then I found out the problem. i uploaded in BINARY mode instead of ASCII.

what did you do?

I tried everything. In fact, the only way I could get newspro to work on daocplace was to ssh in and do a chown to me on everything in the daocplace directory, then upload it with my login for daocplace.

kplonk · #19 (**permalink**) 1st March, 2002, 03:29 AM

Ok try this all you need to do is drop it in the right dir and chmod it to 755 thats it will work a treat,

click this to test here

Dr_Romulus · #20 (**permalink**) 1st March, 2002, 08:39 AM

****in A man !!!!

You are officiallyDA MAN . It's good to see that there are some people that can post in the programming forum that know what the **** they are doing... unlike me!!

Of course ask me about autocad and I'm da guru...

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After downloading and reading the string I officially feel like a huge dumb ass...

I need to study more code apparently...