Installing Sharin'Ware
Follow these steps to install and configure Sharin'Ware:
- copy the "sharin_ware" directory in the desired HTML
path on your server.
- copy the "sharin" directory into your cgi directory.
Set these variables in "sharin_prefs.pl" :
- $home - Specify the web address to the sharin_ware directory.
- $homedir - Specify the filepath to the sharin_ware directory.
- $password - What's the password to the administrator's area (for
deleting files).
- Modify the "push@inc" statement
in all other scripts to identify the location of the "sharin"
directory.
- Modify links in the index.html,
_admin.html, and add.html
files to reflect the location of the appropriate script.
- Modify the extensions.txt
file to reflect the file extensions you will allow for upload
files.
- Make sure the location of PERL specified in
the first line of each script is accurate for your server.
- Set Permissions
- Scripts in the "sharin" directory
must be executable (chmod 755).
- The "files" directory and all subdirectories therein
must allow web full access (chmod 777).
Using the Script
If you use the default data fields, you will be able to search the directory
file by name, category, and keywords that appear in the description field.
Customizing HTML templates
The html template is called view.template. Templates are HTML files
that are inserted into the results screen for each matching entry. To
insert information from your template file, use the following tags:
- !FIELD1! - Prints to contents of data column 1.
- !FIELD2! - Prints to contents of data column 2.
- !FIELD3! - Prints to contents of data column 3.
- !FIELD4! - Prints to contents of data column 4.
- !FIELD5! - Prints to contents of data column 5.
- etc.
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