Daylight Worksheet - DayCGI programming

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. A ScriptAlias /mug-cgi/ has been defined corresponding to directory /home/mug/cgi-bin/. Please create a self-named subdirectory to use for your CGI programming to avoid conflicting with other students.

3. Verify installation by searching databases with the installed CGI. The URL should be http://servername/mug-cgi/yourdir/daybase.cgi.