Documentation
HTMLOCK:  V1.0


System Requirements

  • Perl 5

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 htmlock.cgi

edit path to webpage

Find the line inside htmlock.cgi where the HTMLFILE is opened and put the FULL path to your protected page.

open (HTMLFILE, "/full/path/to/html/path/to/protect/webpage.html");

Add Javascript (norightclick.java) to HTML PAGE

Insert the javascript included in the file norightclick.java right underneath the <body> tag at the beginning of the webpage.

Chmod the files

Chmod htmlock.cgi to 755 and chmod your webpage to 666 or 777

Edit the new protected page (see demopage.html)

Create a new HTML webpage using the index.html file as an example.  Just substitue the url to htmlock.cgi in the HTML.   Use this page instead of the original source HTML page.  When the surfer goes to this page all will look normal except they won't be able to steal anything!

VERY IMPORTANT! 

Do NOT use relative links to images or urls or your page will not work right.  You have to use full URI's and URL's.  If you try otherwise you will get broken links.  So DON'T FORGET THIS!