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A mSQL and perl Web Server Mini HOWTO

Oliver Corff, corff@zedat.fu-berlin.de

v0.1, 17 September 1997

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This Mini HOWTO, highly inspired by Michael Schilli's article Gebunkert: Datenbankbedienung mit Perl und CGI, published in the german computer magazine iX 8/1997, describes how to build a SQL client/server database using WWW and HTML for the user interface.

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1. About this Document

• 1.1 Intended Audience
• 1.2 Conventions used in this text

2. Introduction

3. Installation Procedure

• 3.1 Hardware Requirements
• 3.2 Software Requirements
• 3.3 Installing the Operating System
• 3.4 The http Server
• 3.5 The Browsers
• 3.6 Cooperation of Apache and Browsers
• 3.7 The Database Engine and its Installation
• 3.8 Choice of Interfaces: DBI/mSQL, MsqlPerl, and Lite
• 3.9 Going the generic way: DBI and DBD-msql
• 3.10 The MsqlPerl Interface
• 3.11 perl's CGI library
• 3.12 Installation Checklist

4. Running an Example Database

• 4.1 Adapting the sample script for MsqlPerl
• 4.2 Adapting the sample script for msql-2

5. Conclusion and Outlook

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