Documentation
DATA EXTRACTOR: V2.2
System Requirements
Preliminaries
- Determine the path to PERL 5 on your web
server host. Note that some web hosting companies run both PERL 4 and PERL 5.
Make ABSOLUTELY sure you are not setting this up under PERL 4. Ask your
administrator if you are not sure.
- Unpack the tar archive on your desktop using a
program that unpacks UNIX TAR ARCHIVES. If you don't have such a program then download
WINZIP FREE from SHAREWARE.COM.
- After you have unpacked the TAR archive you
will have a collection of folders and files on your desktop. Now you have to do some
basic editing of each of these files (or at least some of them). Use a text editor
such as wordpad, notepad, BBEdit, simpletext, or teachtext to edit the files. These
are NOT WORD PROCESSOR DOCUMENTS they are just simple TEXT files so don't save them as
word processor documents or save them with extentions such as .txt or they will NOT WORK.
Note that there may be a some files inside of folders which are "blank".
This is normal.
Preparing the CGI scripts
Define Path To PERL 5
The first step is to open up each and every
file that has a .cgi extention and edit line number one of each script. Each of the
cgi scripts is written in perl 5. For your scripts to run they must know where perl 5 is
installed on your web server. The path to perl 5 is defined to a cgi script in the first
line of the file. In each of the cgi scripts the first line of code looks something like
this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
If the path to perl 5 on your web server is
different from /usr/bin/perl you must edit the first line of each cgi script to reflect
the correct path. If the path to perl 5 is the same no changes are necessary. If you do
not know the path to perl 5 ask the webmaster or system administrator at your server site.
Configure the .cgi files
xtractor.cgi (optional)
This will take you all of about 5 seconds to
configure first lets do xtractor.cgi. Open up the file and look near the top for the
line:
$list = "emails.txt";
Simply point this variable to the path
to the flatfile results database. If you leave it as is then emails.txt will be
created in the installation directory and will contain the email addresses you extracted.
cgi-lib.pl (required)
There is only one variable to change here.
Find the line inside of cgi-lib.pl:
$cgi_lib'maxdata =
13107200; # maximum bytes to accept via POST - 2^17=
Upload Your Edited CGI and Database Files
- Upload all of the cgi files (.cgi and
cgi-lib.pl) into a directory you create called "dataextractor" inside
cgi-bin/dataextractor/
- Create a blank text file inside of the
installation directory cgi-bin/dataextractor/ called emails.txt and chmod this file to 666
or 777
- Make a directory inside of your normal
webspace (http://www.yourdomain.com/dataextractor) called clickblasters and upload
index.html here. You might want to password protect this directory.