Random Banner Set Up

1. Download the software from this link

2. Use Fetch or WSFTP to upload the file to your webserver cgi-bin.

3. Telnet to your site and untar the file. If you have questions about telnet, click here.

4. Copy the resultant file to your cgi-bin directory. Change its protection mode to 755.

5. Create a text document with a list of the tags that you would like your random banner script to choose from. Each tag should be on one line in standard html format. You can call this document anything; for the purposes of our example, we'll call it conf.txt.

6. Upload conf.txt to the directory that contains the html file that you would like to display the banners.

7. Create a link in the html file that you would like to display your banners. The link should have the following syntax (I'm omitting the html brackets):

!--#exec cmd="/u/web/yoursite/cgi-bin/random conf.txt

If you opt to call your text file something other than conf.txt, use that name in the link. This html file should have an extension of .shtml, not .html.