Setting Up Unix Directories

Perl is an interpreted programming language that runs in both Windows and Unix.
We will use it on a Unix box to write Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts.

Setting Up

What you will need

• an account on a 'friendly' unix machine (cybil)
• create a directory under your home account called public_html - here you will store your web pages
• create a sub-directory under your public_html directory called cgi-bin - here you will store your cgi programs

Exercise - Testing your setup
Create a simple html page called test.html and store it your public_html directory.

Use your browser to display the page,
http://cybil.tafeitltn.com.au/~xxxxxxx/test.html

- where you should replace the name xxxxxxx with your account name.

In terms of the unix directory structure you set up, which directory does /~xxxxxxx/ refer to ? ____________

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