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- Visitor.exe 2.0a - A .CGI counter for the masses...:)
-
- I ask absolutely nothing for this program except that if you find the
- time, to come by my site and check it out (it's listed below).
-
- I. Intro
- II. Known Conflicts
- III. Setup
- IV. Problems?
- V. Future Updates
-
- ------------------------
-
- I. Intro
- --------
- Ok, You've got you're pretty home page all set up and ready to go but
- you've seen those cool little counters on other people's homepages and
- wanted to put one on your's too. Well, I wrote one that simply reads
- a number from a text file, creates an odometer image of it, adds one
- to it, and write it back to the file. I have decided not to include
- noadd.exe in this release for size reasons. Check my website for an
- update if you really want it. Here is a step-by-step guide to setting
- it up for your server.
-
-
- II. Known Conflicts/Restrictions
- ---------------------------------
- I should get this out of the way right now. Since this is being
- distributed with OmniHTTPd this shouldn't be a problem but this
- program ("visitor.exe") is compiled to run under 95/NT only. If
- you are interested in the source code, I have made it public at my
- website listed below. There are two versions in the zip. A Visual
- C++ 4.0 project and a stripped down version that should compile for
- just about any system.
-
-
- III. Setup
- -----------
- Here's a quick and dirty setup guide to running visitor.exe on your
- web server.
-
- A. Make sure "visitor.exe" is in your CGI-BIN directory (it should
- be there by default).
-
- B. Make sure that in the OmniHTTPd Administration program, under
- "Standard CGI", there is an entry for "/CGI-BIN" as the virtual
- and "C:\HTTPD\CGI-BIN" for actual (or whatever you specified the
- directory to be).
-
- C. Run the visadmin program. When prompted enter a one word reference
- name up to 256 characters (I wouldn't make it that long if I were you
- though...) Then give the program a starting value. It must be a
- positive whole number. I haven't done to much error checking in visadmin
- so I don't know how it will react to bad input. Just stick to numbers
- and no spaces ok? :)
-
- It will then print out some code like:
-
- <IMG SRC="/CGI-BIN/visitor.exe?referencename">
-
- Use this in your page to implement the counter.
-
- If you know your way around the registry can just add the keys
- (DWORD Value in decimal not hex) in:
-
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Visitor
-
- If not, use the visadmin program to add keys. It should be easy
- to use. When you run the visdamin program, it will give you the
- HTML code you need to run that reference name.
-
- D. Now go test it out!
-
-
- IV. Problems? Suggestions?
- --------------------------
-
- Now since you didn't pay for this, I don't have a toll-free technical
- support line to help you (Not that Microsoft has one mind you) but I
- will try to help you out if I can. Keep in mind that I am a student as
- well and as much as I would like computer time to come first, it can't
- always. Also, any suggestions are welcome. My current email is
- "reflux@u.washington.edu" and my web page is at
- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~reflux
-
-
- V. Future Updates
- -----------------
- I will dedicate a page on my server for a while to it. Check it for
- updates.
-
- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~reflux/visitor
- This will be up as long as I go to the University of Washington.
-
- Things added:
-
- *Ver 2.0a
- -Now includes deafult counter. If no reference name is supplied, it
- uses a default counter. However, to prevent unauthorized use, new
- keys must be added/modified with visadmin.
- -Fixes bug in visadmin where it won't initially run without a key in
- the registry. (Kinda bad I know!)
-
- *Ver 2.0 (up from early test versions)
- - This is a stable release with decent features and security measures.
- - Now using the windows registry instead of files.
-
-
- DISCLAIMER
- ----------
-
- Now I know that this part sucks but I have to do it.
-
- Garrick and I are in no way responsible for what happens from the use
- of this program. I wrote it myself and use it on my server so there
- are no viruses in it and it will not intentionally harm your system
- but in using it, you accept the risk that something MIGHT happen and
- agree not to hold anyone but yourself responsible.
-
- Whew...I hate that crap. I hope you have fun with the program and let
- me know if you're using it!