Documentation
MIME MAILER:  V2.2


System Requirements

  • Perl 5
  • Sendmail

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. 

  • $sendmailpm = "/full/path/to/cgi-bin/mimemailer";
  • $smtpserver = "name of your mail SMTP server";
  • $formurla = "FULL URL TO YOUR FORM (OR MAY LEAVE BLANK)";
  • $formurlb = "ALTERNATE URL TO YOUR FORM (OR MAY LEAVE BLANK)";
  • $formurlc = "";
  • $formurld = "";
  • $mailprogram = '/path/to/sendmail';
  • $filedirectory = "/full/path/to/cgi-bin/mimemailer/files";
  • $replyaddress = "YOURNAME <you\@yourreplyaddress.com>";
  • $emailsubject = "SUBJECT LINE OF EMAIL!";

$sendmailpm is the full path to the mimemailer installation directory

$smtpserver is the name of your OUTGOING mail server (eg:   smtp.yourdomain.com)

$formurla is the VALID URL of where the ordering selection form should be (this is a security protocol).  You can leave this blank if you want to.

$formurlb-d are alternate URLS for the index.html page used to order the file.   These might be used for example (see our demo).  Our demo can be accessed from both /demo/mime, http://superscripts.com/demo/mime/, and /demo/mime/index.html, etc.

$mailprogram is simple the path to sendmail

$filedirectory is the full path to the files you are selling (it is recommended to store these inside the cgi-bin or below root)

$replyaddress - email address used to reply to the seller (thats YOU)

$emailsubject is the subject of the email message you want to use when sending your files

Upload Your Edited CGI and Database Files

  • Upload all of the cgi files (.cgi) into a directory you create called "mimemailer" inside cgi-bin/clickblasters/
  • Make a directory inside of your /cgi-bin/mimemailer folder called files and put all the files you will be selling into this folder
  • Make a directory inside of your normal webspace (http://www.yourdomain.com/mimemailer) called mimemailer and upload index.html here.
  • Change the html code of the selection drop down menu to reflect the filenames of the files you are selling (leave the default banner.gif there while testing though).

Chmod the files

  • Chmod all the .cgi files to 755.  Chmod everything else to 666 or 777