I want to have people link back to my site with the following link.

http://www.siteproductions.com/cgi-local/ilink/jump.cgi?HM=4531B&ID=YOUR_ID_NUMBER

But when I tried this out all it did was go to their site. PLEASE HELP SOON AS POSSIBLE

Heh,
Of course it's gonna go back to their site.

jump.cgi calculates hits for the links. If someone clicks on it from your links pages it notches up the hits for that site then re-directs them to that site. This allows you to track which links in your database are getting hit.

If you want people to link back to your site so that they end up on their links youd have to do something with serach.cgi instead of jump, because of the dynamic nature of your pages.

BTW your site looks nice... Is that the Yahoo template set?

Crisco, I think he means the jump.cgi hack by leopold(sp).

Its where you modify jump.cgi that when certain other criteria are in the url, it sends them to your home page and counts it as a link to THEIR site.. Its kinda like a reward for having them link back.

I have tried this mod myself and it doesn't work with 2.0. IF anyone has modded it to where it will, I'd love to have it too.

Crowe

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Works In Links2.0
At the end of the jump.cgi, replace Alex's code with the following:

# Now let's send the user to the url..
if ($goto) {
#-------------lepo's modifications------------- begin..................
if ($in{'HM'}) { print "Location: http://www.yoursite.com\n\n"; }
else { print "Location: $goto\n\n"; }
#-------------lepo's modifications------------- end
}
else {
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print "Error: Record not found ($in{$db_key})!";
}
}




Link back Code

http://www.yoursite.com/search/jump.cgi?HM=4531B&ID=##