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Has anyone ever seen this? I remember seeing it at one time and was really curious about how it was done. Is it common knowledge? I'd love to have people go to www.80sxchange.com and simply see my UBB right on the front page, integrated with the rest of my index.htm. Has anyone here ever done this before? ------------------ Sal Collaziano www.80sxchange.com
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The ONLY way that I know to do this is via an HTML frameset. Other than that, you can modify your Ultimate.cgi, but that won't be a true HTML page.
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Okay. Thanks for your quick response. I'm never to thrilled about frames because I think it makes things a little wacky with the search engines.. It would be nice though! Thanks again... ------------------ Sal Collaziano www.80sxchange.com
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quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Digital Boy: The ONLY way that I know to do this is via an HTML frameset. Other than that, you can modify your Ultimate.cgi, but that won't be a true HTML page.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Actually that's wrong. If you are a UNIX server which most people are then you open or make a file called ".htaccess". Then you put this into the file.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">code: or whereever your UBB is. That's it, be sure to upload in ASCII format. ------------------ Ronin Square - http://www.roninsquare.com "In the end, the world didn't need a Superman, just a brave one."
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Really? Thanks for that info.. Unfortunatly, I think I'm on an NT server.. I wonder how difficult it would be to change over... And I wonder if it would be worth it. With what I use, I never have to worry about CHMOD and stuff like that. I don't know all too much about cgi and whatever goes along with it. Otherwise, it doesn't seem very difficult. A one-liner! I guess I would just add that into the CGI or HTML somewhere... Thanks again! ------------------ Sal Collaziano www.80sxchange.com
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I recommend that you switch over to Hypermart. A very reliable host. They run a UNIX server and offer 20MBs. Also I'm sure North Sky is a UNIX because FreeServer is hosting them. ------------------ Ronin Square - http://www.roninsquare.com "In the end, the world didn't need a Superman, just a brave one."
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That really works? Man, you learn something new everyday. I'm going to have try that!! WOW!!!
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And I thought I answered it already. ------------------ Ronin Square - http://www.roninsquare.com "In the end, the world didn't need a Superman, just a brave one."
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I don't think the point was to find one definitive answer.
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especially since he is on NT... moving servers just so someone can have an htaccess file is a little overkill. 20mb disk space is nuttin when you have a busy ubb, like Sal does here. His server is reliable and fast. He could either do a redirect to his ultimate.cgi file or ask the tech support person to enable that file to be the equivalent of an index.htm page. Either is possible... ------------------ Allen - http://www.stand318.com
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I suppose the best solution, for me, would be to have the UBB redesigned something like this place but with a look of my front page. I'm not sure it would really be worth it! ------------------ Sal Collaziano www.80sxchange.com
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That's the easy part... as seen on TV! Actually as seen in the tutorials... ------------------ Allen - http://www.stand318.com
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Well, you guys going to laugh your pants off but i am on my own server with Win98 First edition and i use savant 2.1 for webserver. If i specify Ultimate.cgi like index page on savant i get directly to my UBB, i dont do that anymore cuz i am using also another website on it, but it works. Oh Savant is free BTW!!! and it runs like andrea's "you know where" ------------------ [This message has been edited by -=SpAwN=- on July 21, 2000]
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Ok, so this is a dead horse that I'm reviving, but I had some thougths. Basically, it didn't occur to me to put the forums right up front; that's a great idea, since they are really the main activity on my site anyway. Thought 1. Of course one could just cut and paste the ubb front-end into index.html. I mean, you would have to lose the info on number of posts, etc (anything that is automatically updated) but the look-and-feel can be preserved without that info. Then, once they click on a forum, they are into ubb proper. Would UBB cough up blood at having the actual Ultimate.cgi front page bypassed? 2. The idea of frames is excellent. Hmm. That way, all the other content continues to be available in other frames. But frames are so scary... Guess I'll be learning more about frames now. But what about using a table? I see that we are right now using a table on this site, and staying in the table as we navigate UBB. Can't this just be applied to the front page as well? That's really all I had to say and ask. Thanks for the advice. Bye now. -Axel ------------------
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if you have unlimited CGI access (cgi files dont have to be in a cgi-bin to work), you can create a forwarding file. Thats what I do, zanardi showed me how.
just make a file called index.cgi and put these lines in it:
#!/usr/bin/perl print "Location:http://www.antipopculture.org/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cginn";
of course, change the code in accordance with your own site/settings. Also, make sure there isn't a index.html or index.htm file in that directory.
If you don't have unlimited CGI access, you can accomplish the same thing with javascript, although it moves a little slower. By slower I mean an extra second or two. To do this, make a file called index.html or index.htm, and put this inside:
<\body onload=\'location.replace("http://www.yournewpage.com");'>
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