Documentation
SALES LEAD GENERATOR: V2.0
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
configure.cgi
This file pretty much runs the whole
show. If you screw this one up don't count on anything working properly. In
other words, make sure you take the time to do this step CORRECTLY. Ask your
administrator if you need to. Below are the variables used in ALL of the other cgi
scripts. All of the other cgi programs USE configure.cgi to figure out where certain
things are.
- $mailprogram
="/usr/sbin/sendmail";
- $adminemail="reply\@yourdomain.com";
- $passwordfile =
"/full/path/to/cgi-bin/saleslead/passwords.txt";
- $datafile =
"/full/path/to/cgi-bin/saleslead/data.txt";
- $optinlist =
"/full/path/to/cgi-bin/saleslead/optin.txt";
- $optoutlist =
"/full/path/to/cgi-bin/saleslead/optout.txt";
- $mailprogram is the path to sendmail on your
server
- $adminemail is the reply address of emails
sent out
- $passwordfile is the full path to the
password file locking the download directory
- $datafile is the full path to the comma
delimited complete data file
- $optinlist is the list of all the opt in
subscribers
- $optoutlist is the list of all the people
that DO NOT WANT emailed
Installing Notes
- Create a directory inside your webspace called
"saleslead". Inside of this directory upload your registration form,
create another .htaccess password protected directory inside of "saleslead"
called download and put your rewards here. Make sure the .htaccess file points to
passwords.txt for authentication
- Create a directory inside your cgi-bin called
"saleslead" and upload configure.cgi, data.txt, optin.txt, optout.txt,
passwords.txt, and register.cgi
- Chmod all the .cgi files to 755. Chmod
data.txt, optin.txt, optout.txt, and passwords.txt to 777 or 666.
Customizing the registration form
- You can add as many or as few fields to your
registration page as your want. All data is collected and becomes required by the
script. The only 2 fields you MUST LEAVE ALONE are the EMAIL ADDRESS field and the OPTIN checkbox.
- The people that would like to receive more
emails from you are stored inside of optin.txt. The people that DO NOT want emailed
are stored in optout.txt (i.e. add to remove list).
- If you are using this to run a survey you will
want to use the data.txt file which has ALL the information from the registration form.
It is comma delimited.
Customizing the response email
If you want to customize the email that goes out after
registering simply edit the text inside of register.cgi in the autorespond subroutine
between these 2 lines
- print MAIL <<ENDMAILMESSAGE;
- ENDMAILMESSAGE
Customizing the response html page
If you want to customize the email that goes out after
registering simply paste your html inside of register.cgi in the autorespond subroutine
between these 2 lines
- print <<ENDSTHANKYOU;
- ENDSTHANKYOU
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