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Before installing you should know:

• Make sure you are allowed to run cgi scripts on your web server and if so, are they restricted to the cgi-bin directory.
  
  
• How to FTP files between your PC and Unix/Linux web server.
  
  
  
  • files ending with .txt, .pl, .html must be sent as type ASCII.
    
  • files such as .jar, .gif must be sent as type BINARY.
    
    
  The majority of publishing and FTP utilities are automatically set to determine whether a file should be uploaded in BINARY or ASCII, but there are exceptions.
  
  
• Where PERL is located on the server. Popular locations: /usr/bin/perl, /usr/local/bin/perl
  
  
• The absolute path to your cgi-bin. (e.g.: home/username/public_html/cgi-bin).
  
  
• How to set permissions to the Perl script (CHMOD) on your server. This is accomplished by way of the most FTP programs.

Installation:

• At first you should configure the chat by editing the files chat.html, config.txt ,chat.pl as described in the chapter Configuration.
  
  
• Using FTP, transfer the files chat.html, kick.html, chat.jar, config.txt image.gif, logo.gif, smiles.gif to the web server directory.

    
    e.g.  /chat/chat.html      
                kick.html              
                chat.jar
                config.txt
                image.gif
                logo.gif
                smiles.gif  
  

  Don't forget transfer the files chat.html, kick.html, config.txt use ASCII mode,
  and chat.jar, image.gif, logo.gif, smiles.gif use BINARY mode.
  
  
• Transfer the file chat.pl use ASCII mode to the web server directory where cgi-perl is allowed.

    e.g.  /cgi-bin/chat.pl

  Using your FTP program, set the permission on chat.pl to 755.
  Set the permission on the directory (variable $path in the file chat.pl) where the datafiles will be created to 777.
  
  
• Open in the browser the following page:
  
  http://yourwebsite/chat/chat.html

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