Installation of Glimpse HTTP
This document contains directions for installing GlimpseHTTP on
your system. We assume that you have a running HTTP server
and that you understand how to install CGI scripts on it. Also,
since GlimpseHTTP is an add-on to
Glimpse, we assume that you
already installed Glimpse and supporting tools somewhere in your
system.
Since most of Glimpse HTTP was written in
Perl,
you must have a version of Perl installed on your machine as well.
Current version was tested under httpd 1.2 from NCSA, but it can
be easily tailored to any HTTP server which supports CGI scripts.
To install Glimpse HTTP on your system:
- Download the newest distribution
of Glimpse HTTP.
- Copy distribution archive to a chosen directory.
- Go to that directory.
- Un-tar the files:
tar xvf glimpseHTTP.src.tar
You should get the directory 'cgi-bin' and several files
- Run the configuration script ghinstall. You probably will
want to read the ghinstall manual.
- Make sure you configured the directory CGI-BIN as a script
directory on your server. For httpd 1.2, this requires adding a line
to your resource file (usually srm.conf).
As an example:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/glimpsehttp/cgi-bin/
Of course, the directory names will depend upon the directories
you specified during the execution of ghinstall.
Please see your http daemon documentation for how to set up
a cgi-bin directory.
- You can remove the files that have not been moved to another location
during installation. These files should be: ghinstall, and
the directory cgi-bin.
- Now you should be ready to make an archive.
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Maintained by Michael Smith
glimpse@cs.arizona.edu