Student Setup

Basics

DBI

1. Install SQLite. (You can use MySQL as well, but it will take some extra steps to grant access and requires root access.) yum install perl-DBD-SQLite

1. Load the train.sql by running sqlite3 train < train.sql

CGI

1. as your non-root login, mkdir ~/public_html
2. as root, edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to make sure UserDir public_html is uncommented. Also, the dozen lines from to should be uncommented. And AddHandler cgi-script .cgi should be uncommented.
3. as root, service httpd restart
4. as root, yum install perl-Text-Template
5. as your non-root login, cd ; cp -R exercises/perlcgi/public_html/* public_html/ and chmod +x public_html/cgi-bin/*.cgi
6. test by going to http:// machine /~ user /cgi-bin/hello.cgi