Frequently Asked Questions about FTLS's Perl Scripts
What do you know about Perl syntax :
To configure these scripts, you should have a little Perl syntax acknowledge :
# : is a comment tag.
Each instruction should be end by the ; symbol.
$DATA = 'string'; : affect 'string' to $DATA variable.
A string could be represent with double quote (") or single quote ('), prefer to
use single quote, because double quote evaluate data into, and you should
use \@ or \$ if you want to display @ and $ tag.
What is '#!/usr/bin/perl' ? Should I change it ?
It's path to Perl interpreter, here noted for Unix system, for Windows system,
use 'c:/Program Files/perl/perl.exe'. On Unix It's generally into
'/usr/bin/perl' or '/usr/local/bin/perl'.
Change it if your Perl path was different. If you don't know, contact your
web administrator because if it's bad you will have a 'Internal Server Error'.
What's $DIR = '/Absolute/path/to/data_or_web_dir/' ?
It's absolute path for your data or web directory. Generally look like
'/home/web_user/your_login/htdocs/' for web directory, and '/home/web_user/your_login/data/'
for data directory. I use it to know where I should read or write file.
I you don't know it contact your web administrator.
If you can't find this information, you could use relative path from
cgi-bin/ directory, using '../' to go up.
example :
if your directory structure look :
'/home/web_user/your_login/' : home directory
'cgi-bin/' : cgi-bin directory
'htdocs/' : web directory
'data/' : data
$WEB_DIR = '/home/web_user/your_login/htdocs/' or $WEB_DIR='../htdocs/'
$DATA_DIR = '/home/web_user/your_login/data/' or $DATA_DIR='../data/'
What's chmod ?
It's only used on Unix system to change file access permissions, if your
web server is a Windows system, this don't exist.
On all Unix system, each user can not do anything on the system, and each
file created by one can not be changed or removed by another user, that why
if you want what your file can be changer by a web user (generally named nobody),
you should specify it. What why you should change file access permissions, else
you could have 'Permission denied' errors messages.
To use 'chmod', you should use 'telnet' to connect to your web host.
To allows web users to read, write or create data files (into data directory),
use 'chmod a+rw thefile' (read write for all user), and 'chmod a+rwx data_dir/'.
To allows web users to execute CGI scripts, use 'chmod a+rx *.cgi' into cgi-bin directory.
If you can not use telnet, now many FTP program (program used to transfer
your files into web server) include function to change files permissions, use it...
What is SSI ?
SSI mind 'Server Side Include', that allow call CGI scripts into a HTML page,
named with '.shtml' extend, CGI output was print were it was call.
Many web server can use it, but this options doesn't
activated in default configuration, if you use your personal web server you
should activate it. If your site is hosted by a web hosting company,
contact your web administrator to know if you can use this options.
Where can I find other CGI Scripts Archives ?
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