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Edit My Page is a webmaster utility; it lets you edit pages on the site without using a local text or html editor and does not require use of FTP.

This is designed for simple websites, and does not cope with complex directory tree structures; all web pages are ASSUMED to be in the webroot for the domain. This is for simple layouts only, comple ones will require using the more common ftp and a html editor, or at least a shell account and a text editor such as ed, pico, or vi- you remember shell accounts, right?

It is free to use, and is released under the GNU GPL. You can download it FREE by clicking editmypage.tar.gz; it is a zipped tarball.

To use it, you need to 'include' a little technomagic in the footer of a page. Include THIS code in the footer structure:

<a href="/cgi-bin/EditMyPage.py?<!--#echo var="DOCUMENT_URI" -->">Edit this page</a>

THAT IS AN 'I', NOT a 'L' in the var= declaration!!!

The Structure will generate the line needed with the page name AND PATH already included. This is CRITICAL for the script to work. that is a SSI INCLUDE, and they need to be enabled so they will work. Try it; they might already be available. Talk to your hosting provider and tell them you need SSI includes tured on if they are not.

You can also hard code the link into each page. To do this, the address lined to MUST include the file name AND PATH FROM THE WEB ROOT. The web root is the directory of the default page(s). If there is a subdirectory, it needs to be included. Look around this website at the different pages and place the mouse on the link to edit each page, BUT DO NOT CLICK IT. Look at the status bar; there is the link's contents. THAT is the sort of thing you have to code into the footer of each page you wish to be able to edit. IF you are using a footer file for all (or some) of the pages on a website, this will not work, you MUST use the SSI method.

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