On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:20:58AM -0700, Support wrote: > I am trying to install a cgi on our server. Currently we are running > OS 9.2.2, webstar 3.0.2 and filemaker 4.1 to serve our files and meet > our database needs. The purpose of the cgi script I am installing is > to track the activity of our ads that we may publish on the web. It > is called adtrackz. It was obviously written for a regular *nix > server but I am trying to get it to work on our mac server using > macperl. Here are his instructions for setting it up along with what > I did (my notes are preceded by "%%%%%":
Looking at the installation instructions, this system appears to have been designed for Unix and Windows machines. It may be that it will not work on a Mac without some extra porting work. Here are some simple things to do that will get you closer: > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<CONFIG.CGI>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > #Enter the required values for each variable below. > #Be careful not to change anything else, > #just what's in between the quotes. > > #The server path to the data directory, must end with a / > $datapath = "/WebServer/WebSTAR/cgi-bin/a/data/"; > > #The server path to your home directory, must end with a / > $home = "/WebServer/WebSTAR/"; You may need to specify these paths in Mac format, e.g.: $datapath = "WebServer:WebSTAR:cgi-bin:a:data:"; $home = "WebServer:WebSTAR:"; However, other parts of the program may assume that '/' is the path separator. Those would have to be rewritten to be portable to the Mac. > Ok, now all you have to do is upload all 3 cgi files to your a > directory (or whatever you called it). Make sure to chmod them > to 755. > > Run adtrackz.cgi. It should prompt you for your password. > > %%%%%I have no Idea what "chmod" is or what I'm supposed to do with it. chmod is a Unix utility that sets the permissions on a file or directory. All the scripts need to be executable by all users. You probably don't need to do anything for this step. > As for the troubleshooting section, still no idea what chmoding is > and there is nothing in the "data" directory and only the 3 cgi's in > the "a" folder. So after I set all this up like this I try to load > adtrackz.cgi from the web with the address > http://investorsleague.com/cgi-bin/a/adtrackz.cgi and I get this in > my web browser: > > Diagnostic Output > # config.cgi did not return a true value. > File 'WebServer:WebSTAR:cgi-bin:a:adtrackz.cgi'; Line 30 > # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. > File 'WebServer:WebSTAR:cgi-bin:a:adtrackz.cgi'; Line 30 On a Mac, this error usually means that the module was saved with Windows newlines. You need to convert the three CGI files to have Macintosh newlines. Here's a Perl script that does it: #!perl -pi tr/\012/\015/; Before you put too much work into this, you may want to make sure that the adtrackz system is intended to work on the Mac as written. Ronald
