This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to set up a guestbook using a perl and a MySQL backend. This SQL backend application would be ideal for companies such as GuestWorld who run free public guestbooks.

This online tutorial guids through the steps to place a guestbook CGI onto your system. This tutorial deals with UNIX servers and UNIX commands for configuration, and assumes that you are able to Telnet into the system, Create directories, and Change directory modifications. Source codes for the guestbook script and sample HTML files are provided on the Web site.