CGI RADpage Setup

The RADpage CGI setup script is intended to setup RADpage on a virtual web server (see Installation for requirements on the web server). The setup-script is an ordinary CGI script named radpagesetup.pl. Please the script and copy it to the cgi-bin directory of your web site. You might need to make it executable (as every CGI script) Then you can start the script by pointing the browser to /cgi-bin/radpagesetup.pl. Please follow the instructions of the script.

Files

radpagesetup creates a heitml2.1 subdirectory in your web server directory and another one in the cgi-bin directory.

You can ask the setup script to create an initial web site for you (called site template). This consists of the files /heitml.hei /index.hei and the /layout subdirectory.

During installation setup creates a temporary directory named heitml-... and it places the heitml distribution files named heitml-...-CGI.tar.gz into cgi-bin. The distribution files are not deleted but you are free to delete them. The script will automatically avoid downloading, if the distribution files are already present.

In case of Problems

Automatic download does not work Some ISPs do not allow CGI scripts to ftp files. The script will however tell you what files it needs, so you can download them manually and put them into the cgi-bin directory.

radpagesetup reports a Missing Feature of your web server: This can have 3 causes:

• Your ISP intentional does not offer this feature and wants you to upgrade to another package.
• The feature is present but the radpagesetup.pl script does not find it. Unfortunately this happens from time to time, because it is very hard for us to anticipate all the possible setups hosting providers use. We are however very happy to provide installation support contact@radpage.com and to adapt the script if necessary. Please make sure however that you have the newest version of the setup script. Note that it might change more frequently than the normal RADpage distribution.
• Your ISP did not enable the feature because you did not yet ask for it. Please ask the ISP now and point them to the CGI Details page that contains all the technical information.

radpagesetup does not find the database This message means that the database system is not installed on the server. You might have selected the wrong database system or it might not be enabled for you. On PostgreSQL you get this message if the database is not running. The script uses the `isql --version` or the `psql -l` command for testing.

radpagesetup can not access the database This means that the database user name, password, hostname, or port is wrong. Please ask your ISP.

Sorry an error occurred while accessing the database. or Database Table not found on some example pages: You probably did not load the example data into the database. Please carefully follow the instructions in the "Getting Started" section of the manual.

Sorry an error occurred while accessing the database. or Sorry, this page is temporarily offline. These error messages are very vague for security reasons. You will see a much more detailed message while RADpage is running. After such an error there is a detailed error report in the /heitml2.1/debug directory. Use your browser to view these files. You can also enter your Ip address as DebugIp into the .heitml config file to always receive complete error messages.