Installing the Script

  1. Get a provider that gives CGI access. I recommend free.prosting.com if you don't have one.
  2. Open each script and change the first line (#!/usr/bin/perl) to the proper PERL address. If you do not know it, ask your web provider.
  3. Upload all of the files (except for txt files and for FormTest.html; there is no need to upload these) in ASCII mode (IMPORANT to use ASCII mode) to one directory. CHMOD this directory and all of the scripts in it to 755. CHMOD all dat files to 622. Leave HTML files alone.
  4. Optional: Choose a directory (preferably not a new directory in the UHSD's directory because doing that will make the script think that the Help directory is a game) and create it. Now, upload the help files to there. Remember to set this directory as the location of your help files in the Universal Settings.
  5. Go to the newuser.html page and sign yourself up. (A user is someone that has control over the database, not those that will submit scores to it).
  6. Delete the newuser.html and the newuser.cgi files. (To add a new user later, you will have to reupload those files and repeat steps 3 to 5).
  7. Set-up your database to how you want it. This include editting thanks.html if you intend to use it.

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