RE: [cgiirc-general] Intall issue - nph-irc.cgi

[Julien W. <fl...@mi...>]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Nighthawk wrote:

> OK you guys will have to bear with me I know very little perl and this is an
> ISP hosted shell so the config is somewhat foreign
>
> The CGI:IRC is installed in /cgi-bin/irc the images in /html/images
> I have created a tmp dir under irc so /cgi-bin/irc/tmp and made it 777
>
> I'm a little lost on the comment:
> "check if the parent directories for this mkdir exist at all. If not,
> create them"
> I'm not really sure what directories I should be looking for or making?
> Also when changing the path in client-perl.cgi what is the path syntax ie
> from the cgi executing or from the root
>
> Ie $PREFIX = "/tmp/cgiirc-"; or $PREFIX = "/cgi-bin/irc/tmp/cgiirc-";

You're free to use the second form, if you created this directory. (BTW,
tmp should be 1777 (with the sticky bit), not simply 777. Or maybe 755
depending on your setup).
Don't forget to change this in cgiirc.conf too.

-- 
Julien