Top Sites Professional 3.05

####################################################### # Top Sites Professional # # Created by Solution Scripts # Email: solutions@solutionscripts.com # Web: http://solutionscripts.com # ####################################################### # # # COPYRIGHT NOTICE: # # Copyright 1998 Solution Scripts All Rights Reserved. # # Selling or redistributing the code for this program # without prior written consent is expressly forbidden. # In all cases copyright and header must remain intact. # ###################################################### INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS - Version 3.04 This is for new setups only, if you are upgrading from a version 2.31 or lower, please go to the following url http://solutionscripts.com/man/topsitespro/upgrade.shtml ####################################################### There are baically three easy steps to getting Top Sites Professional to run. Once you get it to run, all of the configuring is done from the admin.cgi script via a browser. Step 1. Check the path to perl on all the .cgi files. If your path to perl is different from #!/usr/bin/perl you will need to change that on the top of all scripts. If you are unsure what the correct path is, ask your system admin. Top Sites Pro. needs perl5 to run so make sure it points to perl 5, not perl 4. Step 2. Log into your account via ftp. Go to the dir you want the cgi files to be in, this dir must be chmoded to 777. Now upload all file to this dir. This is important, UPLOAD ALL FILES IN ASCII, or the scripts will not work at all. Step 3. While still in ftp, you must chmod the following files. topsites.cgi - 755 out.cgi - 755 editmember.cgi - 755 admin.cgi - 755 create.cgi - 755 variables.pl - 666 Thats it, all files should run..... Now first call up admin.cgi with a browser. It should prompt you to enter 9 important variables, one or two steps at a time. Once that has been completed it will take you to the main admin screen From there you should set a few more confid variables, to get the rankings page the way you want it to look. From the drop down list near the top of the page, select "General Operations" and press the "Edit" button. After you have editted those variables, select one at a time the rest of the items in the drop down list. Should you have any problems or questions, we have created a forum for just Top Sites Professional owners at http://solutionscripts.com/forum and select the Top Sites Professional forum from the list. Or you can email us at solutions@solutionscripts.com Solution Scripts http://solutionscripts.com ########## STATS FOR SOLUTION SCRIPTS ########## Solution Scripts wants to know more about its customers and what kind of abuse our scripts can stand up too. Instead of manually emailing and asking everyone about their system, we've implemented a completely optional stats feature into version 3.04. This stats feature sends the following information to a cgi on our site. Total number of members, Total hits out, Total hits in, Version of perl, and server software. If you do not want your site sending us this information all you have to do is set the variable on the top of admin.cgi to 1, as shown..... $no_stats = 1; This call to our web site returns a blank image, but may sometime may be used to display an image containing current Top Sites news.