Re: FN-FORUM Browser updateable "Latest News" script for NT?

date posted 1st May 2001 16:52

yup - if your writing a file or saving a file then you need to have change
permissions for iwam and iuser on that directory. i also wouldnt be doing
that on a cgi-bin directory either. i find it better to have a specific
directory for anything like that per domain, plus if your going to be doing
more than updating, say writing or uploading, then definately keep it out of
the cgi-bin otherwise you could lose control over what modules are there.

hth

dave ecky

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Fisher" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 4:39 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Browser updateable "Latest News" script for NT?


> I've tried these scripts out (and think I've done everything correctly),
but
> I'm getting the following error when I hit the edit button on
edit_news.asp:
>
> Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0046'
>
> Permission denied
>
> /cgi-bin/edited_news.asp, line 27
>
> Is this a server permissions problem? I tried putting everything into the
> cgi-bin as a test but it still doesn't work.
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Norman Beresford
> Sent: 26 April 2001 9:44 AM
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Browser updateable "Latest News" script for NT?
>
>
> Hi all
>
> Sorry for my tardiness in posting this but I went to Webcom2k1 yesterday
and
> had to spend the rest of the day recovering from the massively
underwelming
> experience.
>
> I've stuck the files online as a zipfile, rather then posting them here.
I
> have commented the files but I'll do a quick run through now, if enough
> people want a more in depth explanation then I'll do one on a webpage.
>
> www.anansi.co.uk/staff/norman/files/free_news.zip
>
> There are four files in the archive.
>
> frontpage.stm - this is a basic mockup of the front page. The important
bit
> is the include file, this is within tags.
>
> news.inc - this is the actual include file containing the news headlines
> which are to appear on the front page. Each headline is in the form of
> headline. Any changes to this
> format need to be reflected elsewhere in the application
>
> edit_news.asp - this is where most of the work is done. It basiclly
> combines two objects. The FileSystemObject and the Regular Expression
> object.
>
> The FileSystemObject allows us to access and manipulate files located on
the
> server. In our case we're going to open the include file, take all of
it's
> contents out and stick it into a variable called includeText.
>
> Next we use the Regular Expressions powers of VBScript. I'm quite new to
> these and I know that there are better ways to achieve what I was after,
but
> as I don't know them I've used the fudge mentioned later.
>
> What we want to do is get two peices of information from each table row in
> the include file, the headline and the URL of the headline. To do this
> we're going to search through our includeText string using two regular
> expressions:
>
> 42.*?42 is our first expression. Basiclly this is looking for all of
the
> text contained between two double quotes. The results of this search look
> like "url.htm".
>
> Our second expression is 42>.*?. This is looking for all the text
> contained between a "> and , the results look like ">This is our
> headline text
>
> We know that we're going to get four results for each search, but we only
> actually want three, so we'll just ditch the last result by sticking the
> first three results into an array. Next comes the fudge as mentioned
above,
> we use the replace(string, substring1, substring2) function in VBScript to
> remove the additional characters surronding our results. If anyone could
> tell me how to do this in the regular expression I'd be most grateful (I
> think it's something like (?>=42>).*?(?>=) but I can't get that to
> work).
>
> Finally on this page we take our results and use them to populate a form
> which is sent to the browser for display to the client.
>
> The final page is edited_news.asp. This is really a simple form
processing
> page using FileSystemObject to write the results back out to our include
> file.
>
> There are a lot of weakness with this script. I'd suggest running the
> results through a function to strip out quotes and angled brackets before
> writing them to the include file, as this will cause problems for the
> application.
>
> If ppl want any more help with this script then please let me know.
> Similarly, critical feedback is more then welcome. TBH I'd rather do
this
> using a DB
>
> HTH anyway
>
> Norman
>
>
>
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