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.
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.
$domainbase =
"/full/path/to/whois.dat";
$port="43";
$indexhtml =
"/allwhois/index.html";
$globalhtml =
"/allwhois/global.html";
$wizardhtml =
"/allwhois/wizard.html";
$registerurl =
"/allwhois/register.html";
$domainbase is full path to the
whois.dat file
$port - DO NOT CHANGE - this is ALWAYS
set to 43
$indexhtml set to the RELATIVE or FULL URL
(NOT PATH) to http://www.yourdomain.com/allwhois/index.html
$globalhtml set to the RELATIVE or FULL URL
(NOT PATH) to http://www.yourdomain.com/allwhois/global.html
$wizardhtml set to the RELATIVE or FULL URL
(NOT PATH) to http://www.yourdomain.com/allwhois/wizard.html=
$registerhtml set to the RELATIVE or FULL URL
(NOT PATH) to http://www.yourdomain.com/allwhois/register.html