3.1.3. Install the RAdmin CGI scripts on your RAdmin host Previous topic Parent topic Child topic Next topic

  1. Become root
  2. Start the installation with
    perl install.pl
  3. When prompted for “Web server html directory”, enter the full path to the root directory of your web server (i.e. the main directory for the HTML documents. The installation will create a directory “Radmin” there, containing documentation and other static files.
  4. When prompted for “Web server CGI directory”, enter the full path your web servers cgi-bin directory. The installation will create a directory “Radmin” there, containing the RAdmin CGI scripts.
  5. When prompted for “User name that your web server runs as”, enter the Unix user name that your web server is configured to run as. All the files that RAdmin installs in your web server will be owned by this user.
  6. Radmin will now install the CGI scripts and documentation in the web server and the Radmin perl modules in your Perl site library directory (typically /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl>). It will also record the answers you gave above in Radmin/Paths.pm, and will reuse the answers if you run install.pl again.