Daylight Worksheet - DayCGI programming

NOTE: Administrative privileges on a Daylight distribution and webserver are required for this exercise.

The Daylight system has integrated web capabilities which allow access to Daylight tools via web browser. The "DayCGI toolkit" is not a rigorously defined API as is the dt_ function libraries, the true Daylight Toolkit. Rather, DayCGI programming means combining an assortment of Daylight and non-Daylight tools to deliver Daylight database and computational services via the web.

1. This exercise consists of installing and configuring the daybase.cgi web application described and downloadable from http://www.daylight.com/support/contrib/daycgi/. First find the web page and download required files as specified. Read the instructions provided in the comments of daybase.cgi.

2. You will need to install the files in a directory accessible to the webserver. One natural choice is the directory specified by script-alias /daycgi/.

3. Verify installation by searching databases with the installed CGI. The URL should be http://yourhostname/daycgi/daybase.cgi.