Your computer must however be visible form outside. The minimum is that it be connected to the Internet. But it is not sufficent. Some sites have "firewalls", forbidden the direct access to the computers of the internal network. The best way is then to try out: launch "gwd" and ask a friend on a computer outside your site to try to connect to it.
Do not forget that the service you created answers only if your computer is switched on! You must therefore let it working. You can leave "gwd" running, the service will not stop.
If you are under Unix or Windows NT (thus not Windows 95), you had to enter the computer as a user, giving your login name and your password. Maybe you want to log out without that GeneWeb stops.
You have then two solutions to resolve this problem: installation in "service" and installation in "cgi".
nohup gwd 2>&1 & (under "sh", "ksh", "bash") nohup gwd >& nohup.out & (under "csh", "tcsh")Then you can logout. Gwd will go on running and send its trace to the file "nohup.out" you can consult later. To stop it, look at its process number, with the command "ps" and kill it with the command "kill".
#!/bin/sh DIR=/home/smith/geneweb cd $DIR $DIR/gwd -cgiLet this shell executable (chmod +x geneweb) and ask your system administrator to install this file in the "cgi" directory. Ask him/her what address to use. This probably will be something like:
http://blabla.xx.edu/cgi-bin/geneweb
-hd c:\home\smith\geneweb -bd c:\home\smith\geneweb -cgi
These are the options which can be given to the command "gwd". Do "gwd -help" to see all the possible options.
Ask your system administrator then:
Ask him/her the address to use. This will be probably something like:
http://blabla.xx.edu/cgi-bin/gwd.exe
If you open the above URL address in you navigator, you will see a page asking only "Base:". Enter the name of your database. You can also add "?b=jones" to this URL, if "jones" is your database's name.
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