Pre-installation notes:
Radiation's Dynadex requires a Perl interpreter version 4.036 or newer and a web server with Server-Side Includes (SSI) Exec capabilities. If you are unsure whether your web server is able to use SSI's exec calls, we suggest you contact your system administrator. Dynadex has been tested successfully on Unix systems running NCSA compliant webservers and on Windows NT Server 4.0 with IIS version 4.0.
NOTE for Windows NT Users: We recommend using ActiveState's Perl 5.003 package, it has passed all of our torture tests and is extremely compliant with the Unix Perl interpreter.
INSTALLATION
UNIX instructions:
Unpack the dynadexUNIX.tar.gz archive into a CGI directory. To do this, ftp the file to a cgi directory, then telnet into that same directory. Type the following command:
gzip -d [filename]
The file will now be un-gzipped and is ready to be untarred. To untar the file type the following command:
tar xvf dynadex-1.3.tar
The file will now untar while setting the appropriate file permissions.
Make sure the perl location referenced in each of the files is valid for your system. If it's not, make the necessary corrections. You will find the perl location in the first line of the following scripts:
dynadex.pl
gecko.cgi
gila.cgi
komodo.cgi
anole.cgi
On a Unix system, you must make sure the scripts are executable. The simplest way to do this is to issue the following command:
chmod 755 *
The script dynadex.pl needs to be configured for your system. This involves defining the $docs_dir variable (line 16), which should be set to the absolute path of your web server's document root, with no trailing slash included.
And use the $ext variable (line 17) to define the extension for your HTML files. For Unix webservers, this is typically .html. Most users will not have to change this, as it is usually .html by default.
You then need to modify the line for requiring 'dynadex.pl' within each of the .cgi files. Make sure the path for requiring the file is valid for your system.
Windows NT instructions:
Unzip the files and put them in a cgi directory. Then put the dynadex
perl files in a directory with script execution access.
Make sure the perl location referenced in each of the files is valid for your system. If not, make the necessary corrections. You will find the perl location in the first line of the following scripts:
gecko.cgi
gila.cgi
komodo.cgi
anole.cgi
Each of the .pl scripts needs to be configured for your system. This involves defining the $docs_dir (line 16) variable for the documents base path for your webserver, and the $ext variable (line 17) to define the extension for your HTML files. For Windows NT it can be either .html or .htm.
