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# Web Board by Jakob Magiera
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# Version : 1.0
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# June 2001
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1. What is Web Board?

Web Board is a CGI-based WWW-Forum written in Perl.
It allows anyone with Internet access to post messages in a forum
using an Internet browser like Netscape or MS Internet Explorer.
I recommend using versions no older than 4.0.

2. Features

Messages are posted without a need to login, so anyone can post.
One needs to supply a name (can be anything) to post.
A message will be stored with the following information:

    1. sender
    2. subject
    3. message text
    4. date and time
    5. unique message id
    6. id of predecessor
    
On the main page one can specify the message depth, which signifies
how far down a thread message will be shown on the screen.
To reply to a message, simply click on its subject.

A thread starts on the lowest depth level, i. e. 0. All replies to such
messages have the same thread name, although the message subjects may change.

3. Installation/Setup

If you have access to a webserver that allows you to do CGI and has perl 5 installed,
you are ready to go.
Simply copy the archive to your cgi-directory (or create a subdirectory like "webboard" there)
and extract it there. Modify the following variables in the script 'webboard.cgi'
according to your needs:


$IMAGEURL = "/webboardimages"; # URL of the 'images' directory

$EXT = "msg"  # the extension that the messages will have,  no dot here!
$ID_LENGTH = 6; # length of the unique message id
$DEPTH = 3 # how far down the thread do you wanna go? the default value is 3
$NEWLIMIT = 24 # hours after which a message is considered old
$BOARDTITLE = "My Message Board"
$MODERATOR = "Somebody Important" # Probably your name

# these colors look fine to me, but you can change them if you like

$BGCOLOR = "#ffefdf"; 
$BGCOLORTEXT = "#ddcdad";
$MAINCOLOR = "#867480";
$INFOCOLOR = "#4644a0";
$REPLYPREFIX = "Re : ";
$QUOTEPREFIX = "> ";
$heading = "Neue Nachricht verfassen";

You will need to create a file "passwd" in the installation dir and put in it 1 line:

Moderator=<crypted password>

Use the included script crypt.pl to create a crypted password:

perl crypt.pl <your password>