General Instructions for installing Perl Cgi scripts:
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1.Find out the location of Perl on your server.You can do this either by telnet by typing "whereis perl" or by asking your system administrator.
After you have found out the correct location,check and rectify,if necessary,the path in the first line of perl cgi script which usually is #!/usr/bin/perl

2.Find out the exact paths of server www root dir and subdirs containing your files.
Substitute these paths in scripts as required.

3.Upload the scripts in ASCII format to server cgi-bin directory.

4.Chmod the script to world executable "chmod 755"
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Specific Instructions for Hit Counter script:
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Editable variables in guestbook script are:
1.$count_file = "numfile.txt" ; # Count text file where no of hits are stored.
"numfile.txt" or any other count text file has to be made world writable (chmod 777) so that script may update it regularly.
2.$images_path = "/home/httpd/images" ; # dir containing the digit images.