NAME

INSTALL.web - [Web] Installation instructions for WordNet::SenseRelate::AllWords Web interface

SYNOPSIS

       cp -R cgi-bin/allwords/ WEB_SERVER_DIR/cgi-bin/  
       cp -R htdocs/allwords/ WEB_SERVER_DIR/htdocs/
       cd /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/allwords/
       perl ./allword_server.pl

Use your web server's directory in place of WEB_SERVER. Note that WEB_SERVER is NOT an environment variable.

DESCRIPTION

1. This guide assumes that you are using the Apache web server. If you are using a different server, then the setup process will probably vary a little.

2. The following Modules and their dependencies are required by the SenseRelate::AllWords web interface :

         WordNet::Similarity
         WordNet::Tools
         WordNet::SenseRelate::AllWords

   All these modules are available at CPAN. Please refer to README.web.pod for more information about installation of these modules. Before installing the web interface all these dependencies must be resolved. Please refer to INSTALL.pod of WordNet-SenseRelate-AllWords for installing dependencies.

3. Copy cgi-bin/allwords directory to the cgi-bin directory of your web server. In our case, as a user of apache, WEB_SERVER is equal to /usr/local/apache2. For example, while installing our web server, we copied as below :

        cp -R cgi-bin/allwords/ /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/
   Note that the location of cgi-bin may vary depending upon your 
   operating system and web server. 

4. Copy htdocs/allwords directory to the htdocs directory of your web server. For example, while installing our web server, we copied as below :

        cp -R htdocs/allwords/ /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/

   WEB_SERVER/htdocs/allwords/allwords.html assumes that your WEB_SERVER/cgi-bin/allwords/ resides in /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/. This may vary depending upon your operating system and the web server you use. Please modify these paths in allwords.html accordingly. You need to change the paths at two locations. One for allwords.cgi and the other for version.cgi.

5. Several output files are created by the web-interface for which it requires read, write and execute permissions to the user_data/ directory. Thus make sure that "others" user level has read-write-execute access to the cgi-bin/allwords/user_data and htdocs/allwords/user_data directory. Similarly make sure if .pl and .cgi files in cgi-bin/allwords/ directory have execute permission for all users including "others" user level.

6. The installation assumes that you have WordNet installed on the default path i.e. /usr/local/WordNet-3.0. If you have WordNet installed on path other than /usr/local/WordNet-3.0/, then you need to modify cgi-bin/allwords/allwords_server.pl to point to the appropriate path.

7. Starting the web server.

           1) Go to the cgi-bin/allwords directory of your web server
           2) start the web server. 

   For example we start the web server as below

           cd /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/allwords/
           nohup ./allword_server.pl &

   The server log is stored at cgi-bin/allwords/log.txt.

8. Automatic start up.

   If you would like the web server to start automatically when your system is rebooted, you can modify your /etc/rc.local file to include the following:

    # start apache (must be done before starting allwords)
   
    /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k start
   
    # start allwords server
   
    OLDPWD=`pwd`
    cd /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/allwords
    /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/allwords/allwords_server.pl &
    cd $OLDPWD

   The above assumes that you are using Linux. Your path names may vary depending on hwo you have installed apache.

AUTHORS

 Varada Kolhatkar, University of Minnesota, Duluth
 kolha002 at d.umn.edu

 Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth
 tpederse at d.umn.edu

This document last modified by : $Id: INSTALL.web.pod,v 1.7 2008/05/30 00:44:40 tpederse Exp $

SEE ALSO

 L<README.web.pod> L<INSTALL.pod>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2008, Varada Kolhatkar, Ted Pedersen, Jason Michelizzi

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

Note: a copy of the GNU Free Documentation License is available on the web at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html and is included in this distribution as FDL.txt.