CGIPhotoAlbum

REQUIREMENTS:

1) GNU G++ Compiler
2) Configure public_html and cgi-bin in home
3) RUDE CGI Library
4) SQLITE for C++

Installation of requirements

1. GNU G++ Compiler

Run following command in terminal to install

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

2. Configure public_html/cgi-bin folder for executing files on browser.
   Assuming you already installed apache if not then run following command in terminal

   $ sudo apt-get install apache2

Steps to configure public_html

$ mkdir ~/public_html

$ sudo a2enmod userdir
    
$ sudo service apache2 restart

Give 755 permissions to public_html directory

$ chmod -R 755 ~/public_html

Now open http://localhost/~username in browser. Here username is your login name.

Steps to configure cgi-bin in public_html

$ sudo a2enmod cgi

$ sudo a2enmod cgid

$ sudo service apache2 restart
 
$ cd ~/public_html

$ mkdir cgi-bin

$ cd /etc/apache2

$ sudo vim sites-available/default

Add following text in file:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/home/*/public_html/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    SetHandler cgi-script
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Save it and then restart apache

$ sudo service apache2 restart

Installing RUDE CGI Library

Execute the following command to install RUDE CGI Library

$ sudo apt-get install librudecgi5 librudecgi-dev

Installing SQLITE For C++

$ sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

AUTHORS:

Mentor and Manager

Dr. Hardeep Singh Rai

Website: http://gndec.ac.in/~hsrai

Piyush Parkash

Website: piyushparkash.blogspot.com

Email: achyutapiyush [AT] gmail.com