INTRO:

   srini,

   You don't know me, but I'm a long time visitor to
   http://unamerican.com/.  Over the years, I've learned a lot
   from what you've written, and the truth is that it changed
   my life for the better.

   In gratitude for all your hard work and in respect of the
   struggle that is your life, I'd like to present you with
   this gift.  It is the realization of truth #301 which
   states:

       I envision this - this is the spec.
       you've got this document - the "truth"
       as it were - and you invite commentary
       on each and every single point in it.
       every bullet point has "add comment" and
       "read comments" hyperlinks. Ideally, the
       "read comments" hyperlinks also indicate
       how many comments have been added to
       that particular truth.


INSTALLATION:

   * Install the following Perl modules if you don't
     have them already.

     CGI::Application
     HTML::Template
     HTML::Parser
     Bundle::DBI
     DBD::mysql

       $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install CGI::Application'
       $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTML::Template'
       $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTML::Parser'
       $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::DBI'
       $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBD::mysql'

   * Unarchive Unamerican-Truth-1.0?.tar.gz

       $ tar zxvf Unamerican-Truth-1.0?.tar.gz

   * Install Unamerican::Truth Perl module

       $ cd Unamerican-Truth-1.0?
       $ perl Makefile.PL
       $ make
       $ su
       $ make install

   * Create the truth database

       $ mysqladmin create truth

   * Create tables in that database by sourcing
     the table definitions from sql/truth.sql

       $ mysql truth
       mysql> \. sql/truth.sql

   * Populate the database with truths by
     parsing truth1.htm and truth2.htm with a perl script.

       $ bin/parse-truth.pl -d truth --user='srini' --password='s3cr37' \
         truth1.htm truth2.htm

     Be sure to specify a user and password pair that'll work
     on your system.

   * Copy everything in www/ to the directory that corresponds
     to "http://www.unamerican.com/truth/".  For our example, we'll
     assume that it's "/var/www/html/truth"

       $ cp -R www/* /var/www/html/truth

   * Modify your httpd.conf so that CGI scripts can be executed
     from that directory.

       # Unamerican::Truth
       <Directory /var/www/html/truth>
           Options +ExecCGI
           AddHandler cgi-script cgi
       </Directory>

   * Edit truth.cgi so that @CONNECT has the right
     information for connecting to the truth database.
     You can also modify the following parameters:

     proverbs_per_page         number of proverbs on a page

     is_numbered               1 to use an ordered list
                               0 to use a bulleted list

   * Restart apache so that the changes to httpd.conf can
     take effect.

       $ apachectl restart

   * Try to load "http://www.unamerican.com/truth/truth.cgi"
     and see if it works.  If it doesn't, see what the
     error_log says, and try to figure out what's wrong.


I recommend getting a sysadmin friend to help you out.  If all else fails,
you can write to me at [email protected], and I'll help you in whatever way
I can.

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