05-09-2001
Hi JennyW
It sounds like you are looking for a web hosting account on a UNIX platform. Unfortunately you are not likely to find a good FREE web hosting solution which allows cgi scripting. Despite this free web hosters usually involve ugly advertising banners be placed on your pages and their reliability and means of maintaining your content are pretty pathetic. Most of them don't involve shell access, which you will need if you want any degree of control over your scripts. I would search for web hosting on the internet, you can get good packages for only $10 a month, which allow cgi, php, perl, sql, etc.
This is a good link to a beginners UNIX tutorial:
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
This is slightly more advanced:
http://caad.arch.ethz.ch/~patrick/LOCAL/teach/unix/
After this you'll know enough to play around in your filesystem.
Hope this helps.
Regards
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
bb-datepage.cgi
BB-DATEPAGE.CGI(1) General Commands Manual BB-DATEPAGE.CGI(1)
NAME
bb-datepage.cgi - Xymon CGI script to view pre-built reports by date
SYNOPSIS
bb-datepage.cgi?type={day,week,month} --url=URLPREFIX [options]
DESCRIPTION
bb-datepage.cgi is invoked as a CGI script via the bb-datepage.sh CGI wrapper.
bb-datepage.cgi is passed a QUERY_STRING environment variable with the type of time-selection that is desired: Either "day", "week" or
"month" can be requested. It will then generate a web form with appropriate day/week/month selection boxes, and based on the users' selec-
tion a resulting url is built from the URLPREFIX and the time selection. The browser is then redirected to this URL.
The URL is constructed from the URLPREFIX, the type-parameter, the value of the "pagepath" or "host" cookie, and the users' selection as
follows:
type=day
The final URL is URLPREFIX/daily/YEAR/MONTH/DAY/PAGEPATH.
type=week
The final URL is URLPREFIX/weekly/YEAR/WEEK/PAGEPATH.
type=month
The final URL is URLPREFIX/monthly/YEAR/MONTH/PAGEPATH.
YEAR is the full year (4 digits, including century). MONTH is the two-digit number of the month (01..12). DAY is the number of the
day in the month (01..31). WEEK is the ISO 8601:1988 week-number (01..53). PAGEPATH is the current value of the "pagepath" cookie if
set; if it is not set but the "host" cookie is set, then this host is looked up in the bb-hosts file and the page where this host is
found is used for PAGEPATH. These two cookies are set by the default web-header templates supplied with Xymon.
OPTIONS
--url=URLPREFIX
This specifies the initial part of the final URL. This option is required.
--hffile=FILENAME
Specifies the template files (from $BBHOME/web/) to use. The default is "--hffile=report".
--color=COLOR
Sets the background color of the generated webpage. The default is blue.
--env=FILENAME
Loads the environment defined in FILENAME before executing the CGI script.
--debug
Enables debugging output.
$BBHOME/web/report_form_daily
HTML form template for the date selection form when type=daily.
$BBHOME/web/report_form_weekly
HTML form template for the date selection form when type=weekly.
$BBHOME/web/report_form_monthly
HTML form template for the date selection form when type=monthly.
$BBHOME/web/report_header
HTML header file for the generated web page
$BBHOME/web/report_footer
HTML footer file for the generated web page
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
BBHOME Used to locate the template files for the generated web pages.
QUERY_STRING
Contains the parameters for the CGI script.
SEE ALSO
bbgen(1), bb-hosts(5), hobbitserver.cfg(5)
Xymon Version 4.2.3: 4 Feb 2009 BB-DATEPAGE.CGI(1)