CGI Help (installing)

[Blazer9131]

Hey guys.

I'm a fiarly educated PHP scripter, but this is my first time installing a CGI script... I need a Auction script, and found a free one http://www.everysoft.com/, and I have a .pl file, and apparently you're supposed to install it as CGI or something..

Anyone want to give me a few directions on what to do? Thanks

~Blaze

 

[Jose Magsino]

i have no idea whether the .pl file/perl script is allowed to be executed in the in the X10 but i'm sure .cgi is allowed.

So if you really want to run it here on x10 server, put it in your /public_html/cgi-bin folder. Set the file permission to 755 and also follow the instruction stated on readme.txt of that auction software you've downloaded. (I've just tried it myself in my PC here )

And access it via..

http://yourhostingname.x10hosting.com/cgi-bin/auction.cgi




HTH

Jose Magsino

 

[Blazer9131]

So rename it to .cgi then? cause I didn't know if it was CGI or perl >.>

Why can't they just post a huge PHP .rar or something.. <.< I can handle 1000's of PHP files to config.. Lol xD

 

[Jose Magsino]

yeah, it is perl-cgi script.. you have a lot of things to configure there inside the auction.cgi, just follow the readme.txt, one of which that you have to set the location of the base directory and you can locate it in line 53, particularly this one '$config{'basepath'} = '/home/hahnfld/auctiondata/';


Have fun modifying it hehehe