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- Message Board Component for Fusion 3.0
-
- Requirements--
- The Message Board components require a web server capable of executing files
- with the extension .cgi. The .cgi files need to be published to a directory has
- executable permission.
-
- Tested Web Servers--
- The Message Board component for Fusion 3.0 is supported on the following
- servers:
-
- +Apache (Linux)
- +Netscape FastTrack 2.0 (NT 4.0)
- +Netscape Enterprise 2.0(NT 4.0)
- +IIS 2.0/3.0(NT 4.0)
- +WebSTAR 2.0 (Mac)
-
- The Mac version server-side files initially have .bin extension. These files
- were stored as a Mac Binary file, with its entire content on the data fork.
- When publishing to a Mac server, the Mac server should convert and rename these
- files to .cgi. However, if the server is not configured to automatically
- convert the files to a Mac Perl 5 executable, you may have to manually convert
- these files on the server with a utility, such as MacBinary II+.
-
- The Message Board may not work on IIS4. IIS 4 sets the PATH_TRANSLATED variable
- differently than other servers or its predecessors. The Message Board server-
- side executables assumes the PATH_TRANSLATED to be the directory the cgi
- resides. This is not true on IIS4.
-
- On the client side, the Message Board requires a JavaScript browser compliant to
- Netscape JavaScript standards. This was tested on the following browsers
-
- +Netscape 3.0, 4.0 (for NT/Win 95/Mac/Sun)
- +MSIE 3.0, 4.0 (for NT/Win 95) - with Script patch/Debugger patch.
-
- The Message Board component does not work properly with MSIE on the Mac
- platform.
-
-
- Restrictions--
- The Message Board has the following restrictions
- +There should only be one Message Board per .nod file
- +The Message Board component may not work with IIS4, as stated above.
- +The user must access the Message Board with the full URL (complete domain
- name and path). For example:
- http://www.yourcompany.com/david/ (is correct)
- http://yourcompany/david/ (is incorrect)
-
-
- Setting up the Message Board Component--
- There are 3 properties that need to be set in the layout view for the Message
- Board.
-
- +Page Title
- This is the title text that is going to appear on your Message Board
- Window.
-
- +Publish to Unix/Window/Mac
- This property specifies the type of web server that the BBS is being to
- published to. The Unix version of the Message Board Component sends a perl
- 5 script. This script requires a Perl 5 interpreter from your Web Server.
- The Windows version of the cgi is a executable which requires a web server
- which allows .cgi execution and the environment variable PATH_TRANSLATED
- be the directory the cgi resides. The Mac version is a binary Perl 5 file
- requiring Mac Perl 5 on the server.
-
- +Perl Path for Unix
- This is the path where your Perl 5 CGI script can found the Perl
- interpreter during any CGI access of your BBS. The Perl script is written
- and tested for Perl 5. If you have access to a unix shell prompt, the
- location can be obtained by typing "which perl" or "which perl5" at the
- prompt. The output of the command is the perl 5 path to put in for this
- box. If you are unable to locate the Perl 5 interpreter on the server,
- please contact your ISP/Webmaster/MIS staff.
-
- Miscellaneous Notes--
- +The Message Board Component shipped with Fusion 3.0 handles quotation
- marks in the name field correctly.
-
-