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# A mSQL and perl Web Server Mini HOWTO

## Oliver Corff, `corff@zedat.fu-berlin.de`

v0.1, 17 September 1997

This Mini HOWTO, highly inspired by Michael Schilli's article Gebunkert: Datenbankbedienung mit Perl und CGI, published in the german computer magazine iX 8/1997, describes how to build a SQL client/server database using WWW and HTML for the user interface.

## 1. About this Document

- 1.1 Intended Audience
- 1.2 Conventions used in this text

## 2. Introduction

## 3. Installation Procedure

- 3.1 Hardware Requirements
- 3.2 Software Requirements
- 3.3 Installing the Operating System
- 3.4 The http Server
- 3.5 The Browsers
- 3.6 Cooperation of Apache and Browsers
- 3.7 The Database Engine and its Installation
- 3.8 Choice of Interfaces: DBI/mSQL, MsqlPerl, and Lite
- 3.9 Going the generic way: DBI and DBD-msql
- 3.10 The MsqlPerl Interface
- 3.11 perl's CGI library
- 3.12 Installation Checklist

## 4. Running an Example Database

- 4.1 Adapting the sample script for MsqlPerl
- 4.2 Adapting the sample script for msql-2

## 5. Conclusion and Outlook

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