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Comments and suggestions concerning this book should be mailed to gmourani@videotron.ca © Copyright 1999-2000 Gerhard Mourani and Open Network Architecture ® 404 Compilation Decompress the tarball (tar.gz). [root@deep /]# cp FAQ-O-Matic-version.tar.gz /var/tmp/ [root@deep /]# cd /var/tmp/ [root@deep tmp]# tar xzpf FAQ-O-Matic-version.tar.gz Compile To install the Faq-O-Matic program in your computer, move into the new FAQ-O-Matic directory and type the following commands on your terminal: [root@deep FAQ-OMatic-2.709]# perl Makefile.PL [root@deep FAQ-OMatic-2.709]# make [root@deep FAQ-OMatic-2.709]# make install [root@deep FAQ-OMatic-2.709]# mv fom /home/httpd/cgi-bin/ (or wherever your CGIs live). [root@deep FAQ-OMatic-2.709]# mkdir -p /home/httpd/cgi-bin/fom-meta [root@deep FAQ-OMatic-2.709]# mkdir -p /home/httpd/faqomatic [root@deep FAQ-OMatic-2.709]# chown root.www /home/httpd/cgi-bin/fom [root@deep FAQ-OMatic-2.709]# chown -R www.www /home/httpd/cgi-bin/fom-meta/ [root@deep FAQ-OMatic-2.709]# chown -R www.www /home/httpd/faqomatic/ The “make ” command will compile all source files into executable binaries, and “make install” will install the Perl programs and any supporting files into the appropriate locations. The “mv” command will move the main “fom” CGI program of Faq-O-Matic to the “cgi-bin” directory of your Apache web server. The “mkdir” will create new directories named “fom-meta” and “faqomatic” under the “/home/httpd/” directory where we’ll handle all related FAQ-O-Matic files. Finally, the “chown” command will set the owner of the “fom” CGI program to be the super-user “root” and the group to be the user Apache run as “www” and will set the directories “fom-meta” and “faqomatic” to be owned by “www” and group by “www”. NOTE: You’ll receive a temporary password via mail during the compilation of the software. This password will be necessary to complete later the installation of Faq-O-Matic through the web interface. Inform Apache about the location of Faq-O-Matic files Once Faq-O-Matic has been installed in the system, we must add the following lines in the “httpd.conf” file of Apache to be able to locate and use it feature. Step 1 Edit the httpd.conf file (vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) and add the following lines between the section <IfModule mod_alias.c> and </IfModule>: Alias /faqomatic/ "/home/httpd/faqomatic/" <Directory "/home/httpd/faqomatic">     Options None     AllowOverride None     Order allow,deny     Allow from all </Directory> Alias /bags/ "/home/httpd/faqomatic/bags/" <Directory "/home/httpd/faqomatic/bags">     Options None     AllowOverride None     Order allow,deny