Kilgor
07-25-2001, 11:30 AM
I know most of you support UCJ and all, and once I turn a profit from my first couple CJ sites, I will buy a script, maybe UCJ.. but anyway, here is my question regarding the beta 1.10 version of CJPro:
This new BETA version has the ability to track hits to your root url instead of that long url it gives each user.. it doesn't come with ANY documentation on how to get it working though, because its untested. However, the script says you can use it if you want.
Does anyone know how to correctly set the script up to do this? Here's what I'm thinking:
First, I uploaded the 3 files the installation says only to upload if you're using this root url thing.. I think it uses the index.cgi file somehow. I edited this file with my full path to the cgi-bin config file for the script, which was at first set with the full path info for americanhoes.com (his CJ site).. and then I uploaded that new one to my cgi-bin dir, and typed in the url in my browser. All it did was redirect me to the mainpage.
I assume this is how it "tracks" hits.. the index.cgi adds the referring hit to the database, and then redirects to your real index.html file instantly.. thus people can send hits to your domain and they'll be counted. So, I'm thinking that I would set .htaccess to automatically point to this index.cgi file instead of index.html.. but since the beta script doesn't really support the root url thing, it doesn't tell you how to set it up. Just says leave it for now, upgrade later.. heh.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated. I really want to be able to track hits to my root url instead of that long url, so when I do switch to a better pay script, tons of trades wouldn't have to change my link url, it'd already be pointing to my domain..
This new BETA version has the ability to track hits to your root url instead of that long url it gives each user.. it doesn't come with ANY documentation on how to get it working though, because its untested. However, the script says you can use it if you want.
Does anyone know how to correctly set the script up to do this? Here's what I'm thinking:
First, I uploaded the 3 files the installation says only to upload if you're using this root url thing.. I think it uses the index.cgi file somehow. I edited this file with my full path to the cgi-bin config file for the script, which was at first set with the full path info for americanhoes.com (his CJ site).. and then I uploaded that new one to my cgi-bin dir, and typed in the url in my browser. All it did was redirect me to the mainpage.
I assume this is how it "tracks" hits.. the index.cgi adds the referring hit to the database, and then redirects to your real index.html file instantly.. thus people can send hits to your domain and they'll be counted. So, I'm thinking that I would set .htaccess to automatically point to this index.cgi file instead of index.html.. but since the beta script doesn't really support the root url thing, it doesn't tell you how to set it up. Just says leave it for now, upgrade later.. heh.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated. I really want to be able to track hits to my root url instead of that long url, so when I do switch to a better pay script, tons of trades wouldn't have to change my link url, it'd already be pointing to my domain..