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MULTIPLE DOMAIN HOST

System Requirements

  • Perl 5
  • .htaccess 404 redirection
  • must be able to run cgi outside cgibin

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

index.cgi

Upload and chmod to 755.  Edit the 3 paths below to their obvious values.

  • $rootdir = "/full/path/to/public/html/installationdirectory/";
  • $subdir = "/relative/path/to/installationdirectory/";
  • $footerhtml = "/full/path/to/footer.txt";
  • $headerhtml = "/full/path/to/header.txt";
  • $inserthtml = "/full/path/to/insert.txt";
  • $insertpoint = "</head>"; #KEYWORD YOU WANT TO USE FOR AD INSERTION MATCH
  • $rootdir make sure this points to the COMPLETE PATH to public_html or installation directory if different than root html
  • $subdir = if installation is in root html dir set = "/" otherwise set to the RELATIVE PATH TO INSTALLATION DIRECTORY = "/relative/path/to/installationdirectory/";
  • $footerhtml = "/full/path/to/footer.txt";  OBVIOUS
  • $headerhtml = "/full/path/to/header.txt";  OBVIOUS
  • $inserthtml = "/full/path/to/insert.txt";  OBVIOUS
  • $insertpoint = "</head>"; #KEYWORD YOU WANT TO USE FOR AD INSERTION MATCH.  This means whenever </head> is found in given webpage insert.txt is shoved right after.  Good way to do banner ads without screwing up the persons HTML background colors and header information.

Setup

  • Upload index.cgi into the root installation directory and chmod to 755
  • Inside this directory create directories for EACH domain/subdomain.  For example if I was hosting 3 domains all pointing to the same IP for free.webhosting.com (free.webhosting.com,party.com,whatever.com) I would have directories setup like so
    • /path/to/install/free.webhosting.com/
    • /path/to/install/party.com/
    • /path/to/install/whatever.com/
  • Upload the .htaccess file into the root installation directory and edit it so the 404 error points to index.cgi
  • Now whever a url is called it will default by 404 to index.cgi which will grab the DESIRED webpage and display it along with your ads.
  • If you do not want a HEADER, FOOTER, and/or INSERT just leave those files BLANK