XULTech Firelinks README

Firelinks needs to be installed as a CGI application.
This means that you need to have a web server installed on your computer.
Firelinks has only been tested on on Apache and Microsoft IIS 5.0,
but it should work on any web server that supports CGI.


Installation Under Microsoft Windows

Unzip the file windowsfirelinks.zip.

For Microsoft IIS, you can unzip it anywhere, but it is convenient to unzip it
under X:\Inetpub\wwwroot, where X: is the drive letter.

After unzipping the file there should be two directories.  
The directory xultech is where all the .CSS and .PNG files are located.
The directory cgi-bin is where all the CGI files are.

You will need to create the correct virtual directories that maps to the
directory xultech.  Go to Start Menu | Setting | Control Panel |
Administrative Tools | Internet Service Manager.  Open up the Internet
Information Service branch and right click on Default Web Site to bring up
the context menu.  From the context menu select New Virtual Directory.
The alias for the virtual directory should be "xultech".

If you already have a virtual directory where you store all your CGI files
then you can move all the files under cgi-bin to that directory.
Alternatively you can create a new virtual directory that maps to cgi-bin.
If you are creating a new virtual directory that maps to cgi-bin do not
forget to go to its Properties page and change its execute Permissions to
"Scripts and Executables".



If you are using Apache, just unzip it one level above your cgi-bin directory. 
For example, if all your CGI files are in C:\Apache\Apache\cgi-bin then unzip 
it under C:\Apache\Apache.  The unzip will then put the CGI files under the
cgi-bin directory and put the CSS and PNG files in
C:\Apache\Apache\xultech.  You will then need to manually move xultech into
your htdocs directory so that the files can be found via
http://localhost/xultech.




Installation For Linux

Use tar -zxvf linuxfirelinks.tgz one directory above your cgi-bin.
For example, if your cgi-bin directory is at /home/jsmith/public_html/cgi-bin,
then untar it under /home/jsmith/public_html.

Tar should have left the file firelink with the correct executable bits sets.
If it is not, make sure that the executable bit is set with chmod.

The tar should also have create a directory /home/jsmith/public_html/xultech.  
Which should then make it accessible via http://localhost/xultech.  If your
web site is not setup this way then you will have to manually move the xultech
directory to the appropriate location in your server.