MetaGenerator
Installation Notes
To install MetaGenerator on your server download
metagen.tar.gz
file, uncompress and extract files. You will see four files:
manual.htm (this file)
update.htm
update.pl
update2.pl
Put manual.htm and update.htm in the same directory under WWW
document root directory. Put update.pl and update2.pl into
CGI-BIN directory which is configured to execute Perl scripts.
Uncomment header lines in update.pl and update2.pl files
and modify them to have correct paths to WWW document root
directory, user's directories and keywords files.
Current version of MetaGenerator installed under Apache WWW server,
OS Solaris 2.5. There is also version working under Windows NT 3.51.
Author will be happy to receive your critical comments and
recommendations. Please send them to
vitaly@wdcb.rssi.ru
Some recommendations
General type of document
It is recommended to select WDC Data option if document describes
or contains data which have WDC Data Status as it defined in the
ICSU Guide on WDCs.
Documents describibg or containing data which are collected
and managed by IGBP community should be marked as
IGBP Data.
Other documents related to data and information concerning
Earth Sciences in broad sense should be marked as
Other Earth Science Data &
Information.
Document expiration time
Putting an expiration date on your document is a good idea if you
want to write robot-friendly pages. A robot that parses a <META>
tag with an expiration date knows when it should revisit the page to
index fresh content. This way, you are assured that all of the Web
indexes are able to keep up-to-date with the changes you make to your
pages.
Time interval for Client Pull option
This option is applicable only to those documents which are
updated frequently in real time (like weather machine, etc.)
You can instruct the browser to reload your document after a
specific number of seconds. It is not recommended to use
this option with static documents.
Name and E-mail address
Put your name and E-mail address in corresponding fields.
Current version makes simple check of E-mail syntax,
i.e. looks if at sign "@" and at least one dot
"." exist in the E-mail string.
Edited document location
Let your document root directory location is: /home/www/documents
and under root directory there is a subdirectory DATA containing file
stpdata.html.
Your input must be /DATA/stpdata.html
Let you are willing to edit document
mydata.html in your home directory
/home/userdir/WWW , where WWW
subdirectory is configured to be processed by WWW server. In this case
your input must be /~userdir/mydata.html,
where ~ is the prefix used for user's directory
(ask your Webmaster what is particular prefix on your server).
Home directory
For security reasons it is recommended to put temporary file, logfile
and finally edited file into separate subdirectory under your home directory.
For example, you have TEMP subdirectory in your home directory,
then your input must be: /home/userdir/TEMP. Be sure that TEMP directory
has necessary permissions for writing into it. Note, that script will
suggest you to look on finally edited file through your WWW browser.
Be sure that that selected subdirectory under your home directory
is processed by WWW server.
Last updated on May 5, 1997
WebMaster