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The simple guestbook script allows you to create a simple guestbook to add to your site. This guestbook is a basic one and will appear on your site as it does below Edit Guestbook Template.

Here are the following steps:

  1. To access the CGI Center, click on the icon above the words CGI Center on the main screen of your cPanel interface.
  2. To access the Simple Guestbook menu, click on the words "Simple Guestbook."
  3. Copy the HTML code below Manage Guest Book and paste it into the web page you wish to have the guestbook appear on.

Modifying the guestbook:

  1. Click on "Edit Guestbook Template"
  2. Modify the HTML code in the blank field to suit your needs
  3. Click on Save to save your changes to the guestbook template

Viewing your guestbook

  1. Click on "View Guest Book" to see who has signed your guestbook

Managing your guestbook (removing entries)

  1. Click on "Manage Guest Book" to access the entries in your guestbook

Troubleshooting: Make sure that the HTML code is placed in your web page the same way it appears in your cPanel interface.
 

In Random HTML, you can add many lines of HTML code that will be randomly selected by the Random HTML script to display on a page of your web site. For example, you can place many different facts in a file, and the Random HTML script will display a random fact every time the web page is accessed. This can be useful for daily hints, trivia, or other random information you wish visitors of your site to see.

 Here are the following steps:

  1. To access the CGI Center, click on the icon above the words "CGI Center" on the main screen of your cPanel interface
  2. To enable the wrapper, click on the words "Random HTML"
  3. Place a different piece of HTML code on each line of the blank field that you need

For example: if you need two pieces of code, it would look similar to: <b> Koalas are marsupials and have pouches </b><b> The Cheetah is the fastest land mammal in the world </b> 4

Click on "Save" to save your HTML code5 Add <!--#exec cmd="cgi-bin/randhtml.cgi"--> to the web page in which you wish the random bits of HTML to appear. 

Troubleshooting: Make sure that the facts or other information you are adding are being added in proper HTML code or they will not display properly, or possibly not display at all. 

This feature allows you to run CGI scripts from your /scgi-bin/ directory using your uid (user) to run the script. This means that you, or your web pages can run cgi scripts if they are placed in the /scgi-bin/ directory.

Here are the following steps:

  1. To access the CGI Center, click on the icon above the words "CGI Center" on the main screen of your cPanel interface
  2. To enable the wrapper, click on the words "Simple CGI Wrapper"
  3. Place any scripts in /home/username/public_html/scgi-bin that you wish to be able to access from the web (except /username/ will be your cPanel username)

Troubleshooting: Make sure that the scripts you have placed in /scgi-bin/ have the correct permissions and filenames to be run properly on your system.