Documentation
WAHOO: V6.0
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.
- Download the tarfile for this program and
save it to your desktop.
- 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
wahoo.cgi
Edit the user configuration area of wahoo.cgi
as follows
- $email = "you\@yourdomain.com";
- $organization =
"Superscripts+Software+Inc";
- $address = "112+North+Washington";
- $city = "Washington";
- $state = "DC";
- $zip = "09121";
- $country = "US";
- $phone = "800-417-0291";
- $fax = "800-417-0924";
Each line of code does the following:
- Defines $email as as your EMAIL ADDRESS. The
backslash is REQUIRED before the @ symbol
- Defines $organization as the Name of your
Organization. Substitute PLUS SIGNS for spaces here if necessary.
- Defines $address as your Organization Address.
Substitute PLUS SIGNS for spaces here if necessary..
- Defines $city as your CITY. Substitute PLUS
SIGNS for spaces here if necessary.
Defines $state as the State. Substitute PLUS SIGNS for spaces here if necessary.
- Defines $zip as the Zipcode.
Substitute PLUS SIGNS for spaces here if necessary.
- Defines $country as the Country.
Substitute PLUS SIGNS for spaces here if necessary.
- Defines $phone as the Phone.
Substitute PLUS SIGNS for spaces here if necessary.
- Defines $fax as the Fax.
Substitute PLUS SIGNS for spaces here if necessary.
File Locations
The following files will be uploaded into the
ROOT level HTML directory.
- wahoo.cgi
- sites.txt
File Access Permissions
File access permissions must be set correctly
for this program to run. The table below lists the permissions of each file which are to
be set by the unix command ( chmod ) used to set the correct access permissions. You must
set the access permissions for each of these files.
CHMOD 755
|
CHMOD 777
|
wahoo.cgi
|
sites.txt
|
Edit sites.txt
Add the urls you want to have wahoo submit
line by line like this
http://www.cybercore.net/info/
http://www.telecore.com/
/demo/wahoo.html
etc...
You can use the blackwidow program to
automatically index your entire site.
Some people prefer to edit this by hand
afterwards. Once sites.txt has been edited properly you can setup a crontab to run
wahoo.cgi perioiclly to keep your links fresh. Or you may simply run it from
telnet as specified below.
Run wahoo.cgi from telnet
From your telnet prompt run wahoo.cgi
perl wahoo.cgi