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- Please see the file:
-
- http://netwinsite.com/manual/dnewsweb.htm
-
- This version of dnewsweb is significantly different
- to previous versions, in brief.
-
- Header and footer files have been replaced by templates
- for greater flexibility.
-
- To install dnewsweb:
- Installing DNEWSWEB
- -------------------
- DNEWSWEB is a web to news gateway, it lets you merge your web pages and your
- news groups.
-
- You must install it on your WEB server, in a directory that you have
- already setup on your server as containing CGI programs, you must
- read your server documentation if you don't currently know how to
- setup a cgi program, typically you would copy the files to a directory
- like:
-
- SERVER_ROOT\cgi-bin\
-
- Two files should be coppied to this directory
- copy \dnews\dnewsweb.exe \SERVER_ROOT\cgi-bin
- copy \dnews\dnewsweb.ini \SERVER_ROOT\cgi-bin
- In some instances you will have to place the .ini file in a different
- directory, this is dependent on your server software, sometimes the
- 'SERVER_ROOT' is the right directory. (Dnewsweb will give an error
- if it can't find this file, in which case just try moving it somewhere else)
-
- Now edit dnewsweb.ini and define three things
- notepad \SERVER_ROOT\cgi-bin\dnewsweb.ini
- The name of your DNEWS news server
- News groups to appear on the front page
- News groups that you are allowing people to access.
- Define the headers directory.
- WARNING: if you don't limit the news groups people can access, then
- you may find everyone in the world reading news via your web pages,
- this may make your site more popular than you would like :-)
-
- Now copy the template files to the headers directory
- that you have defined in dnewsweb.ini if you have moved
- it from the default (you should do this if you
- plan to modify the templates)
-
- Then try it out, point your web server at the address:
- (unix) http://your.ip.name/cgi-bin/dnewsweb
- (nt) http://your.ip.name/cgi-bin/dnewsweb.exe
-
- It will run with other news servers, however it is much faster with
- DNEWS and the 'list all newsgroups' function will only work with DNEWS.
-
- HELP, It asked me where to save dnewsweb.exe ????
- This means you have failed to tell your web server
- that the directory cgi-bin/ contains CGI programs and
- not WEB pages. Go back to your web server administration
- window and look for help on CGI directories.
- (This is the single most common question we get !!)
-