Using WASPII

Using WASPII

Assumption: The cgi components of the WASPII system is installed into /home/httpd/cgi-bin/waspii and html components are installed into /home/httpd/html/waspii. All the examples below are given with these directories in mind.

To the WASPII user:

Your WASPII administrator must have created an entry point web page for WASPII services and must have informed you about this page's address either by an e-mail or some other posting on your site's web pages. Point your web broser to this address and choose the list(s) you want to subscribe to or unsubscribe from. (Please note that some lists could be web subscribe/unsubscribe disabled and you might not be able to subscribe/unsubscribe). A typical address to place the main WASPII page is http://yourdomainname/waspii/lists.htm.

Click the red arrow on the left of the list you are interested to go to its subscription/unsubscription page.

Enter your e-mail address in the box and send a subscription or unsubscription request for yourself. (See example)

Check your e-mail for a confirmation message.

Point your browser to the URL specified in your confirmation message and click the "Subscribe" button to confirm your subscription request.

Now you are subscribed to an announcement list and you will soon start receiving mail announcements posted to this list by the list's administrator(s).

Do not try to send mail announcements to this list because you will not be able to do so unless you are a list administrator.

You can contact the list administrator using the the link provided at the top of the subscription/unsubscription page. Please post all your suggestions to this email address.

To the master WASPII administrator:

After you finish WASPII setup, go ahead and create some lists. To create a new list, you must point your browser to http://yourdomainname/waspii/creating2.htm.
Actually, the main web page (http://yourdomainname/waspii/lists.htm should be used as the main web entry point to WASPII services and this page will have a "Create a New List" button if you have declared your computer's IP as a secondary master administrator host IP or you are using your web browser on the same host that you used to install WASPII. Please see item 13 in WASPII Installation.

Create an announcement list called "General" or something like that and then click the Administration link at the very bottom of your list creation report page to go to the Administration page.

Subscribe a reasonable set of e-mail addresses using the batch subscription feature.

Create other announcement lists that would serve (at least initially) the needs of your network community (Social Events List, Management Announcements List, Project Group Announcements etc. etc.)

Compose and send an announcement message to your subscribers telling them about the new service and where they should point their browsers (normally http://yourdomainname/waspii/lists.htm ).

Edit the /home/httpd/html/waspii/lists.htm file to your taste to make it appear conforming with your site standards. The sample lists.htm file distrbuted by WASPII is an autoforward page which automatically loads /home/http/cgi-bin/waspii/main.cgi; a PERL script which creates the main WASPII page on the fly. It checks admin rights and parses the /home/httpd/cgi-bin/waspii directory for announcement lists to display. You can edit the /home/httpd/cgi-bin/waspii/main.cgi file to change how the main WASPII page looks but this requires some PERL experience.