Version: $Name: beta20011115c $
IF YOU USE THIS, PLEASE LET US KNOW! SEND URLS TO url@theyesmen.org

Hello website fan! Welcome to YesIWill, the program that lets you
automatically "funhouse-mirror" anyone's website - an ability you can
use to obtain speaking opportunities on behalf of your adopted
organization (see www.theyesmen.org for examples, and end of these
comments for a few suggestions).

YesIWill should work on any Unix system with: Perl 5 and the Apache
webserver with mod_rewrite installed.  To make YesIWill work for you,
follow these extremely easy instructions (the whole thing will take
you ten minutes or less).

If you're a hardcore coding-monkey type person, you'll understand when
we say:  YesIWill is your instant sense-making web-proxy!

To install this: 

1. Upload everything to your domain's web directory--where you would
normally put your HTML files. (Tip: It's slightly better to use a "root"
domain, one that is just www.something.com/ and not in a subdirectory.
Occasionally, a javascript may depends on having a "root" domain--not a 
subdirectory--and may break otherwise when it calls /filename.html. We
can fix such references in html with some reliability, but in javascript
it's just about impossible. If you want to try to hack javascript 
parsing for your particular domain, use substitutions.txt or search on 
"JAVASCRIPT HACKS SHOULD GO HERE" in yesiwill.pl.)

2. Then, from the Unix command line, run the configure script by
typing "./configure". Answer the questions, most of which you can
choose the default for.

(If you don't have access to the Unix command line, you may edit
the iwill.conf and .htaccess files by hand by following the
instructions in the files, and upload them afterwards. Also, if you're
interesting in some optional settings you may want to look at
iwill.conf anyway.)

3. Make sure Apache (the webserver) is configured for mod_rewrite and
that you have directory "override" privilege. Ask your systems
administrator to make sure--for example, with lines like the following
in the "httpd.conf" file:
	<Directory /home/httpd/html/mydomainname>
	AllowOverride All
	Options All
	</Directory> 
Administrator must then restart httpd--for example: 
        /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

4. Customize the substitutions.txt file (see instructions in file).

5. Browse to your URL, tell search engines it's the real one, and get 
ready to represent your chosen organization in person!


Please send bug report, patches, ideas etc. to
codemonkey@theyesmen.org. See http://theyesmen.org/yesiwill for latest
versions of this software.

Thanks to Jeff Ballard for the basic HTTP socket connection code this
uses (www.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/projects/wwwgrab/).

Thanks to Cue P. Doll (www.cuejack.com) and Nickie Halflinger
(www.detritus.net)  for extensive and essential help.


And special thanks to all those institutions with excellent, elaborate
websites--www.wto.org, www.imf.org, www.worldbank.org, europa.eu.int,
www.europarl.eu.int, www.whitehouse.gov/afac, etc--promoting a
corporate, maniacal, or frightening vision of future and progress.

Thanks also to all the money-making machines we call corporations,
whose websites--www.cnn.com, www.vivendi.com, www.rand.com,
www.cocacola.com, www.ge.com, www.7-eleven.com, www.mcdonalds.com,
www.gm.com, www.tacobell.com, www.lufthansa.com, www.marlboro.com,
etc.--are even more elaborate.

Let's speak for them more honestly than they speak for themselves!

(Note: Institutions like the WTO, the IMF, etc. want to appear capable
of accepting democracy and dissent, and so they will possibly not
react to your rip-off, which can be very sad for a website fan.
Corporations, on the other hand, have no need to appear tolerant,
since their only goal is supposed to be profit, and they will probably
send you a threatening letter. Whee! Collect them!)

YesIWill is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL).

