Org v2.0
Org is a simple perl script designed to organise meetings.
Doodle is an excellent and much neater alternative to ORG.
Installing Org
Requirements
- Access to a webserver that allows cgi scripts
- Perl
- Download Org here.
- Unzip and untar this archive in your
cgi-bin
directory
You may need to create a file called .htaccess
in this cgi-bin
directory containing the line
Options Includes ExecCGI
- Change line 13 in org.cgi
$webroot="http://www.myserver.com/~bob/cgi-bin";
to your website/webserver and the location of org.cgi. For example, if you have moved org.cgi to /home/bill/public_html/cgi_scipts/ change line 9 to:
$webroot="http://www.myserver.com/~bill/cgi-scripts";
- Change the first line to the location of perl on your webserver.
eg:
#!/usr/bin/perl
- Change the permissions on
org.cgi
to allow the webserver to execute it - ie chmod o+x org.cgi
- Change the permissions on the
org
subdirectory and the example files to world r/w
ie chmod o+rw org
and chmod o+rw Example*
You now should be ready to go!
Using Org
To create a new meeting table - visit $webroot/org2.cgi eg
www.myserver.com/~bob/cgi-bin/org2.cgi
and follow the instructions!
Email updates
If you would like to be kept updated about future versions of Org, or
bug fixes, then you can leave your email address here:
Good Luck!
Contact: d.l.r.hodson+AT+reading.ac.uk