Add webpaging to your website!

The directions below are for webmasters interested in adding webpaging functionality to their website. This allows any internet user to send a message from a website to any Rinkers alpha-numeric pager. As you may know with a computer there are always a number of different ways to accomplish any task. Outlined below is just one possibility for configuring your website so that users can send you an e-mail page.

Requirements

• A CGI-enabled Webserver
• perl
• sendmail

Download html and perl files

Click here to download page.zip. This file contains three files. cgi-lib.pl is a standard library of Perl routines to manipulate CGI input. page.html is an html form for sending webpages. page.pl is a perl script for reading the form input and sending e-mail with sendmail.

Extract the files

From most Unix/Linux systems type 'unzip page.zip'. From Windows you can use any unzip utility. I suggest WinZip.

Move the files

You will need to move page.html to your html directory. You will also need to move page.pl and cgi-lib.pl to your cgi-bin directory.

Set the permissions

You will need to make sure that page.pl and cgi-lib.pl are readable and executable. Also double check that page.html is readable.

Check that path to Perl and sendmail

You will need to make sure that the path to Perl in page.pl and cgi-lib.pl is set correctly for your system. You will need to make sure that the path to sendmail in page.pl is set correctly for your system. The default path to Perl is /usr/local/bin/perl. The default path to sendmail is /usr/sbin/sendmail.

You're Done!

Test it out. If you experience any problems or cannot get it to function correctly please notify me, tom@cort.ws, and I will help you to the best of my abilities.