Will, as much as everyone here I believe want to help out, these questions are OT and therefore should be addressed to the right list/group.
Your best bet is to try newsgroups, one being comp.lang.perl.misc You can also try the apache mailing list that is very very helful to topics related to apache. See the list info at httpd.apache.org Thanks. Ilya -----Original Message----- From: Will K. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3/19/02 11:37 AM Subject: Various (Sometimes OT) Questions I have a ton of questions about a project I am working on, so this may go off-topic, but please help me if you can... I am kind of... well, okay... a LOT... in over my head... Apologies to those who don't want to go OT... I just don't know where else to turn... It's kind of an admixture of Perl, Database and Apache questions... Here goes... 1.) I was just reading up on Hamilton's tutorial here: http://www.cgi101.com/class/password/. She talks about setting up a database with a "STATUS" column for expired membership accounts, but she doesn't have anything on setting the time limits. For instance, if I want to set up a membership site that allows my user's to register for a month, six months or a year, then how do I get it set up so that the time limits, i.e. the status, on their account is set and expires automatically and properly? Anyone know of any good tutorials or scripts on or for this? Next... JH says to write htaccess files (for databases) like this: Auth_MYSQL_DB usertable Auth_MYSQL_Password_Table users Auth_MySQL_Username_Field username Auth_MYSQL_Password_Field password Auth_MYSQL_Empty_Passwords Off AuthName "Members-Only Area" AuthType Basic require valid-user But I want to develop custom login error messages, and the code looks like this: ErrorDocument 500 http://foo.example.com/cgi-bin/tester ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/bad_urls.pl ErrorDocument 401 /subscription_info.html ErrorDocument 403 "Sorry can't allow you access today" so here are my (probably dumb) questions: 2.) How many possible errors can there be? I'd prefer to cover all my bases. 3.) Where do I set the coding for the error redirects? Just at the bottom of the script? 4.) If I use the database method, as opposed to .htpasswd, then do I still have to use .htpasswd? 5.) If mod_auth isn't installed on my server by my hosting service, then can I just put the module in a CGI-BIN myself? 6.) .htaccess files aren't showing up in my FTP client (WS_FTP) because they don't have a name - aside from what comes after the "." Is there a way to configure WS_FTP to show the .htaccess file? Thanks for any help, Will _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
