Configuring the CGI part

Configuring the CGI part
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The Annotate distribution contains a directory named cgi-bin. In this directory, you can find the Annotate CGI scripts together with the components it needs to work. The contents of this directory should be moved to a location where the web server executes them as CGI scripts (i.e. a ScriptAliased directory) . Make sure that the annotate file is executable and that all files in that directory (as well as its subdirectories) are readable.

Note

Maybe you have to adjust the first line of annotate

#!/usr/bin/perl

to point to your Perl binary. The default should work on most systems, but on some systems, the perl binary can be found in a different directory.

I assume that you already have a working RDBMS system at hand. You have to create a table with the columns described below.

Table 1.1. Comment table structure

Field name	Field type	Description
`id`	`integer, not null`	identifier and primary key
`node_id`	`char, not null`	DocBook Node-ID
`Name`	`char`	the comment author's name
`eMail`	`char`	the author's mail address
`Date`	`datetime`	comment date and time
`Comment`	`text`	comment text

If Annotate knows your database type, the installation script will ask you whether it should create this table for you.

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