A mSQL and perl Web Server Mini HOWTO
Oliver Corff, corff@zedat.fu-berlin.de
v0.1, 17 September 1997
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.
1. About this Document
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
5. Conclusion and Outlook
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