Documentation
REPLIGUEST: 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.
MYSQL SETUP
Create a mysql
database and upload the included .sql tables
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. Note you will place TWO copies of configure cgi into the upload (one in
the cgi-bin/repliguest directory) and one inside (cgi-bin/repliguest/admin). They
are exactly the same files. $emailsubject = "WELCOME TO
REPLIGUEST!";
$adminemail =
"you\@yourdomain.com";
$sendmail =
"/usr/sbin/sendmail";
$spamcatname = "Messages";
$tablecolor="#0000FF";
$tablefontcolor="#000000";
$messagetablecolor="#FFFF00";
$tablemessagefontcolor="#FFFFFF";
$tablecolor="#FFFF00";
$tablefontcolor="#000000";
$messagetablecolor="#0000FF";
$tablemessagefontcolor="#FFFFFF";
$mysqldatabase = "your mysql
database name";
$mysqlusername="your mysql
username";
$mysqlpassword="your mysql
password";
$mainindexdisplaydepth = 500;
$userindexdisplaydepth = 500;
$adminusername="admin
username";
$adminpass="admin
password";
$linkblasterurl =
"/repliguest";
$clientsitedirurl =
"/repliguest/sites";
$cgidir =
"/full/path/to/cgi-bin/repliguest";
$mainindex =
"/full/path/to/repliguest/index.html";
$cgiurl =
"/cgi-bin/repliguest";
$gbroot =
"/repliguest/sites";
$datadirectory =
"/full/path/to/repliguest/cgi-bin/data";
$clientsites =
"/full/path/to/repliguest/sites";
Upload Your Edited CGI
- Create a directory inside your cgi-bin called
repliguest
- Inside of this directory (cgi-bin/repliguest)
create directories called admin and data
- Password protect the admin directory and chmod
the data directory to 777
- Upload the following to
/cgi-bin/repliguest/admin/
- adminlogin.cgi
- autoresponderadmin
- autoresponderadmin.cgi
- broadcast.cgi
- configure.cgi
- deletelinksite.cgi
- Upload the following to /cgi-bin/repliguest/
- data directory
- addlink.cgi
- configure.cgi
- finalize.cgi
- footer.html
- header.html
- login.cgi
- signup.cgi
- subaddcategory.cgi
- subautoresponderadmin.cgi
- subdelete.cgi
- subdeletecategory.cgi
- Upload the html into the following structure
inside your normal html space
- repliguest/index.html
- repliguest/admin/index.html
- repliguest/webmasters/index.html
Chmod the files
- Chmod all the cgi files to 755
- Chmod the /cgi-bin/repliguest/data directory
to 777
- Chmod the sites directory to 777