I'm just looking for someone to point me in the correct direction on a few things. I don't need an explination of functions, I just need to know where to begin looking.

1) How can I redirect a user to a different website.
2) How can I create a website which revolves around users, and passwords. I know how to work with .htaccess, and .htpasswd, but is this necessary, if I am going to be doing the whole site in CGI?
3) I need to create a searchable database, but know nothing about SQL, or Oracle, or any databases. Whats to stop me from creating a piped text file, and search and minipulate using that file? Under what circumstances would I need to stop using a clear text file, and switch to an actual database?

If you have any functions, modules, documentation that you think might help me out any at all, I'd apprechiate it.

Thanks monks.

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