On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:34:27 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steveo)
wrote:
>I have a small dynamic website I wrote in perl. All news and stuff is
>entered through a web accessible backend page and the data is written to a
>series of flat ascii text files. When I make a mistake in entering data,
>or if I want to change most data, I have to shell in and edit it with vi
>(no big deal). What I'd like to know is if there are simple web based text
>file editors (written in perl) out there that I can integrate into my
>website so I can edit these raw files over the web instead.
>
>I had been thinking of writing a cgi script that would allow you to pick
>any one of a predetermined set of data files to pull into a text area box
>that could be edited and then returned as a form to over-write the old
>version. It seems simple enough to read a text file into a webpage, but
>I'm not sure that the I know how to return the edited file to the webserver
>in the exact same format as it was retrieved.
There are quite a few of those cgi-commandline scripts out there.
Do a google search for "cgi commandline" or "shell cgi".
But you can save yourself some time, this is about the nicest one
out there.
ispsy.cgi
http://NISoftware.com/ispy.cgi
Beware: these are all security risks, You should rename the cgi
to something other than the default, or ideally disable it after
you are done.
You really should consider keeping a separate
ssh connection going, to do your edits in. Is it that
hard to have ssh going in an xterm or terminal?
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