RLAJ.COM EzContent Manager Help and Installation File
Installation
Please read this entire page before starting the installation.
Upload all the files to your server, follow the format of the .zip file archive.
Upload all the files in ASCII mode (text mode) except the images.
all images upload in binary mode.
Setting Program File and Folder Permissions
cgi-bin
Set the cgi-bin/content-manager/data folder to 777 - rwx-rwx-rwx
Set the cgi-bin/content-manager/data/modules folder to 777 - rwx-rwx-rw
Set the cgi-bin/content-manager/data/jsmodules folder to 777 - rwx-rwx-rw
Set the cgi-bin/content-manager/data/links.txt file to 666 - rw-rw-rw
Set all .pl files to 755 - rx-rx-rx
Web Space
Set the /content-manager/templates/template.html file to 666 - rw-rw-rw
Set the /content-manager/templates/index.html file to 666 - rw-rw-rw
Create a folder where you want to place the pages (content folder)
This is where the program will store the pages you create.
Create a folder under that folder called 'content-images' (no quotes)
You now should have:
/Content-Folder
/Content-Folder/content-images
Comlete folder and file information is available in the installation package.
Your style sheet goes in the main folder.
Any images for your templates goes in the content-images folder.
chmod sytle sheet to (666)
XML Feed
/Content-Folder/feed.xml
if you are goung to use the XML feed, place the feed.xml file
in your /Content-Folder/ folder and set the permissions to 666 - rw-rw-rw
Edit the configuration.txt file
You can run the install program (recomended) to do the install
from your web browser.
OR You can edit the config file manually with a text editor.
Edit the variables in the configuration file for your site.
If you need help with the paths, run the pathtest.pl file
to help you get the paths for your web space.
http://www/Your_Server.com/cgi-bin/content-manager/pathtest.pl
IMPORTANT:
After install, remove the install program
from your server. Keep a copy in case you need to reinstall.
Create your Templates (page design)
This program uses 2 templates.
1. Home page template - used for main site page (usually index.html)
2. Main template - used for all other pages.
Option for more templates can be set in the Admin options.
For images and style sheets, etc. Alwasy use the full web
address to the image in your templates.
<IMG SRC="http://server.com/folder/content-images/image.gif">
/content-manager/templates/template.html
You can make the page design just about any way you like.
There are only 6 available tags that you will place on
your template page where you want the page text, title
and links to appear. Template Help
If you do not know what a template is, do a search on
Google for 'free web templates' and you will find 100's
of free to use page designs.
Special Tags
These tags are called [search and replace tags]
When the program runs (add new page, etc.) it
searches for the tags on your template, and replaces
them with the text that you entered for the page.
<!Kew_Words_Here>
<!Meta_Desc_Here>
<!Article_Title_Here>
<!Page_Content_Here>
<!New_Link_Here>
<!Link_Name_Here>
<!Content_Images>
<!Outside_Links>
<!Home_Link>
<!Article_Title_Here> - this will place the Title that you
enter on the admin form on the page where you want it to
appear.
EXAMPLE: <Title><!Article_Title_Here></Title>
EXAMPLE: <H1><!Article_Title_Here></H1>
<!Page_Content_Here> - this will place all the text and
images that you enter in the wizard on the page where you want it to
appear.
EXAMPLE: <Table>
<!Page_Content_Here>
</Table>
<!New_Link_Here> - this prints the link in a specific format.
The format is:
<A HREF="page_name.html"><Font Class=Links Color=Blue>Title</Font></A><BR>
<!Link_Name_Here> - this prints the name of the page only.
EXAMPLE: page_name.html
<!Content_Images> - this prints the web address to the content-images folder
Please see the templates provided for examples of realtime
use of the templates and tags.
<!Kew_Words_Here> - auto generated key words for meta tag
<!Meta_Desc_Here> - auto generated description for meta tag
(1st 100 characters of text)
EXAMPLE:
<meta NAME="description" CONTENT="<!Meta_Desc_Here>">
<meta NAME="keywords" CONTENT="<!Kew_Words_Here>">
List of links to the outside world.
<!Outside_Links> - this prints the link in a specific format.
The format is:
<A HREF="http://www.server.com/page_name.html"><Font Class=OutsideLinks Color=Blue>Title</Font></A><BR>
See javascrpt help for more page link options.
<!Home_Link> - this prints the link in a specific format.
The format is:
<A HREF="index.html"><Font Class=Links Color=Blue>Home</Font></A><BR>
The Home Page Template
/content-manager/templates/index.html
The program will create a home page or an INDEX page
automatically. You can use any of the tags above on
the page. The title of the page you should type in,
and not use the auto generated title.
There is one extra special tag you need to insert in
the home page (index.html) where you want the BODY of
the page to appear.
<!Home_Page_Content_Here> - this is replaced with the
text that you type in using your administration
page, Edit Home Page section.
<!New_Link_Here> - this prints the link in a specific format.
The format is:
<A HREF="page_name.html"><Font Class=Links Color=Blue>Title</Font></A><BR>
If you want to change the link STYLE - the CLASS name is: Links
Just add the .Links to your style sheet. A style sheet is
included with the program.
If you want to put all the links on all the pages,
USE:
<Script src="/cgi-bin/content-manager/java-links-feed.pl"></Script>
This is a java script feed -> with links to all your pages.
See javascrpt help for more page navigation options.
Making Template Changes
If you have created many pages and want to change your template,
you can refresh all the pages to reflect the new page design.
This is done on the main admin page.
XML Feed
if you are going to use the XML feed, place the feed.xml file
in your /content folder and set the permissions to 666 - rw-rw-rw
Using Modules
You can create "Modules" to use on your pages where you want have
the same text or data on all the pages. each time you create a
module, there is a new 'search and replace' tag created. Just
place the tag on the page where you want the text to appear.
All module file name END with _Mod
JavaScript Modules
The WYSIWYG editor will not allow you to insert javascript for the
page. So add a new javascript module and paste the javascript code
in the module. Then on your page where you want the javascript, place
the tag for the javascript module where you want the javascript to appear.
Some javascripts are multi part and may require more than one module.
Notes
If a Title is too long for your page menu,
you can edit the Page Title by using the
"Edit Links Database" function, without
changing the page address.
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