Server Option Installation

1. Create group payroll via editing /etc/groups.
   
   
2. Install per Basic Installation instructions.
   
   
3. Download payrollbashServer.tar.gz.
   
   
4. Place payrollbashServer.tar.gz in "/home/payroll"
   
   
5. As su give ownership of file to "payroll"
      /># chown payroll /home/payroll/payrollbashServer.tar.gz
   
   
   
6. Login as "payroll"
   
   
7. Unzip the file
      /home/payroll>$ tar zxvf payrollbashServer.tar.gz
   
   
8. You will now have a directory : /home/payroll/public_html>$ with the cgi scripts enclosed
   
   
9. The following httpd.conf edit may not agree with your distro's apache configuration. If you have difficulties and resolve them then please forward a httpd report so that I can incorporate it as part of these instructions.
   
   as "su" edit httpd.conf so that it contains the following
   
   

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     ScriptAlias /payroll/ "/home/payroll/public_html/"
   
     AddHandler cgi-script  .sh .cgi
   
     Alias /prbash/ /home/payroll/payrollbash-1.06/
   
     <Directory /home/payroll/public_html/>
           Options ExecCGI Includes FollowSymlinks MultiViews
     </Directory>
   
     <Directory /home/payroll/payrollbash-1.06>
           Options MultiViews
   	Allow from All
     </Directory>
   
     UserDir enable payroll
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10. If apache has been configured with suExec then ensure it is enabled. If suExec is not available then as su chown the payrollbash directory with #chown -R nobody:nogroup /home/payroll/payrollbash-1.06 .
    
    
11. apache has to be able to load the module mod_userdir.so . I've noted that some distros are leaving this module out because of security issues . I haven't been able to find a work-a-round so can only suggest that the module is freely available as a rpm download. I had this problem with Mandriva and solved it by checking the version of apache and downloading the necessary file .
    
    
12. stop and restart the apache web server
    
    
13. in browser open the following url :http://localhost/~payroll/prbash.cgi and you will hopefully see this :
    
    
    
    

    If you are using a networked pc then you will need to replace host=localhost in ./bin/source.ref to host=yourDomainName and open the url :http://yourDomainName/~payroll/cgi-bin/prbash.cgi You will also need to look into security issues if other users have access to the server.