Installing Parser on Apache web-server, CGI script
To install Parser, one should make changes to server's main configuration file. If you are not authorized to make such changes, you should be able to use .htaccess files.
By default, Apache has usage of .htaccess disabled.
You will need to enable it (at least allow specifying FileInfo) by adding directives to server's configuration file (usually httpd.conf), inside <virtualhost …> section allotted to your site or outside it-for all sites:
<Directory /path/to/your/web/space>
AllowOverride FileInfo
</Directory>
Place Parser's executable file (in current version, parser3) into your CGI scripts directory (if you upload it using ftp you must do it in binary mode) and set necessary rights (ask your hosting provider for details, but usually it's-755).
For Win32:
If you use version with XML support, unpack XML libraries into the same directory.
Add these blocks to your .htaccess file (or httpd.conf-inside <virtualhost …> section allotted for your site or outside it-for all sites):
# declare Parser as .html files handler AddHandlerparser3-handlerhtml
Actionparser3-handler/cgi-bin/parser3
If you would rather change implicit configuration file (see "Installing and configuring Parser") location, you can explicitly specify it :
# assign environment variable containing path to auto.p
SetEnvCGI_PARSER_CONFIG/path/to/file/auto.p Note: In this case, you will need Apache modulemod_env, which is, however, installed by default.
Parser makes records about errors to error log file parser3.log, which is implicitly located in the same directory where parser3 CGI script is. If Parser is not allowed to write to that file, errors are reported to standard error stream and are recorded in web-server error log file. If you would rather change implicit location of parser3.log, you can explicitly specify it.
# assign environment variable containing path to parser3.log SetEnvCGI_PARSER_LOG/path/to/file/parser3.log
Note: In this case, you will need Apache modulemod_env, which is, however, installed by default.