How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site

Examples from Chapter 8

Important note: Some of the working examples contain links to CGI scripts that are actually running on a remote server. If you select these examples when you're not actively connected to the Internet connection, your browser may give you an error message. Try them again later when your Internet connection is active.

Invoking Scripts with Hypertext Links

Calling the "fortune" script from a hypertext link
- Working Example (needs Internet connection)
- Source Code
Calling the Archie gateway from a hypertext link
- Working Example (needs Internet connection)
- Source Code

Invoking Scripts with Fill Out Forms

A basic fill-out form
- Working Example (needs Internet connection)
- Source Code
HTML elements for creating fill-out forms
- Working Example (needs Internet connection)
- Source Code
Using the mailto.pl script to create a feedback form
- Working Example (needs Internet connection)
- Source Code

Clickable Image Maps

Server-side Image Maps (needs Internet connection)
Client-side Image Maps
- Working example
- Source code

Gateway Scripts

Finger
- Working Example (needs Internet connection)
- Source code

Archie
- Working Example (needs Internet connection)
- Source code
E-mail
- Using mailto.pl as a feedback form (as above)
  - Working Example (needs Internet connection)
  - Source code
- Using mailto.pl in a hypertext link
  - Working Example (needs Internet connection)
  - Source code

Fast Text-Based Document Indexing and Retrieval

Working SWISH & WAIS Searches (needs Internet connection)
Example SWISH & wwwwais configuration files
- SWISH configuration file
- WWWWAIS configuration file
Custom form front end for wwwwais

Server-Side Includes

These server side include examples will only work correctly if this page is accessed from a Web server that supports includes.

Including the current time and date within a document
- Working example
- Its source code
Including one document within another
Including file modification and size information in a document
- Working example
- Its source code
Executing commands in a document
- Who's logged in?
  - Working example
  - Its source code
- Finger a user
  - Working example
  - Its source code
- How do I get from there to here?
  - Working example
  - Its source code
Executing server scripts from within a document
- Working example
- Its source code

Up to:

Lincoln D. Stein, lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu
Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research

Last modified: Sun Sep 29 15:24:58 EDT 1996