VPS2 CGI Library: TTL Tool
After you modify your Domain Name Service (DNS) information, you will want to have both sites active for a period equivalent
to the time to live (TTL) information for your domain name. The TTL is the amount of time that the current domain
name information remains in Internet Name Server caches. To avoid any downtime do not cancel the current hosting service
until after a time equivalent to the TTL has elapsed. A quick way to check TTL information is to use the TTL tool. You can
interface with this tool using a FORM element such as is shown below:
<form method=POST action="/cgi-bin/library/tts/ttl.pl">
<input name="name" size=24 maxlength=72>
<input type="submit" value="Check TTL">
</form>
Installation
Copy the tts directory from the /usr/local/share/contrib/ directory on your VPS v2 to the appropriate
cgi-bin for the domain that will be using the script. Connect to your VPS v2 server via
SSH, su to root, and run the
following command using the correct path to the cgi-bin:
# cp -rf /usr/local/share/contrib/tts /PATH/TO/CGI-BIN
Make sure to change the file ownership to the correct user.
Specify the return email address for messages created by the Domain Name Modification Template Generator. Do this by
substituting the email address for INSERT YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS HERE in the /www/cgi-bin/tts/nsi-modify.pl file.
#
# from whom does the email template get mailed
#
$from = "INSERT YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS HERE";
Be sure to place a \ character before the @ sign in the email address, such as:
$from = "youremail\@example.com";
Customization
Two subroutines in the util.pl file are used to print out header and footer information. These functions are
print_header_info and print_footer_info. Feel free to modify these functions so the CGI outputs pages that
are in synch with the motifs of the rest of your site.
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