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["Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." <smolnar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm attempting to install a program WebMO (http://www.webmo.net) and am 
encountering difficulties due entirely tot eh fact that I don't know what 
I'm doing.  I have Apache installed on my SuSE 7.1 computer and use 
Netscape 6.2.  I've made no changes (of which I am aware) to the Apache 
installation.

WebMO has a perl installation script which asks a number of questions 
before installing the application.  That's where I have problems as I can't 
seem to tell the script what it needs to know.

Here are the questions (the complete perl script is attached):

#locate local host
&divider;
print "SET UP WEBSERVER NAME\n\n";
print "The script has determined that the webserver name of this computer\n";
print "to be:\n\n";
print "   $temp_host\n\n";
print "IMPORTANT: This must represent the correct FULLY QUALIFIED webserver 
name\n";
print "(computer.domain.edu) for this computer.\n\n";
print "Is this webserver name fully qualified and correct [y/n]:";

This one I answered correctly as http://abnormal.ffc:901 opens the test 
page for the web server.

print "SET UP HTML DIRECTORY\n\n";
print "The script will now create a directory into which the WebMO HTML\n";
print "files will be copied.  The directory should meet the following\n";
print "requirements:\n";
print "  - Directory is in the server's webspace\n";
print "  - The directory is NOT in a cgi-bin directory\n";
print "  - You need to have permission to write to this directory\n";
print "  - The parent of the specified directory must already exist\n\n";
print "Example:  /home/smith/public_html/webmo\n\n";

This one gives me problems.  What is the server's webspace?


print "\n";
print "Please enter the URL corresponding to the specified directory.\n";
print "Example:  /~smith/webmo\n\n";

If I can't specify the directory correctly, I can't give the URL for that 
directory.


print "SET UP CGI DIRECTORY\n\n";
print "The script will now create a directory into which the WebMO cgi\n";
print "scripts will be copied.  The directory should meet the following\n";
print "requirements:\n";
print "  - Directory is in the server's webspace\n";
print "  - Execution of CGI scripts is permitted in directory\n";
print "  - You need to have permission to write to this directory\n";
print "  - The parent of the specified directory must already exist\n\n";
print "Example:  /home/smith/public_html/cgi-bin/webmo\n\n";

I don't have the foggiest idea as to what the above means.


print "SET UP USER DIRECTORY\n\n";
print "The script will now create a directory that will be used to store\n";
print "user profiles, passwords, jobs, and other private data.  This 
directory\n";
print "should meet the following requirements:\n";
print "  - Directory is NOT in the server's webspace\n";
print "  - You need to have permission to write to this directory\n";
print "  - The parent of the specified directory must already exists\n\n";
print "Example:  /home/smith/webmo\n\n";

Suddenly, it's not supposed to be in the server's websace?????


print "FINISH SETUP\n\n";
print "The remainder of the WebMO setup will be done through the WebMO\n";
print "adminstrative tools.  The adminstrative tools facilitate 
configuration\n";
print "of system preferences, configuration of any packages (GAMESS, 
Gaussian,\n";
print "MOPAC, etc.) adding/editing of users.\n\n";

print "Access WebMO with your web browser at the following URL: \n";
print "\thttp://${webserver}$url_cgiBase/login.cgi\n\n";;

print "Login as the user 'admin' with a blank password. You will be 
prompted\n";
print "to change your password at that time.  After changing the admin 
password,\n";
print "you will be prompted to register your copy of WebMO.  You will then 
be\n";
print "brought to the administration home page.\n\n";
&pause;
print "Click on the 'System Manager' and check the location of the scratch\n";
print "directory, which you may change if desired.  Click 'Return to Admin'\n";
print "to return to the administration home page.\n\n";

print "Click on the 'Interface Manager' and enable the interfaces to any\n";
print "computational chemistry packages that you have already installed on 
your\n";
print "system by clicking the corresponding 'Enable' button.\n";
print "Click 'Return to Admin' to return to the administration home page.\n\n";

print "Click on the '<interface_name> Manager' to configure any interfaces 
that\n";
print "were enabled in the Interface Manager.  Make any neccessary changes 
in the\n";
print "interface configuration, and then click 'Submit' to commit the 
changes.\n";
print "Click 'Return to Admin' to return to the administration home page.\n\n";

This doesn't work either (not too surprising as I haven't set it up 
correctly).  Netscape tells me that the URL isn't installed on the server.

Any help will be much appreciated.  Particularly useful would be a 
definition of the server terms used in the perl script.

Thanks in advance.