GoogleHack web interface server

SYNOPSIS

ghack_server.pl acts as a server to which the web interface connects to for all user queries. The server then retrieves the results of the queries and sends it back to the web interface.

DESCRIPTION

To install the server please follow these steps:

1) Change the following variables accordingly:

The localport should be a number above 1024, and less than around 66,000. Make sure that localport number is the same on both the client and server side.

$LOCALPORT = XXXXX;

Next, change the the path to the GoogleHack/Temp directory eg, /home/username/WebService/GoogleHack/Temp/

$ghackDir="/home/username/WebService/GoogleHack/Temp/";

Next, update the Google-Hack configuration file path, to eg /home/username/WebService/GoogleHack/Datafiles/initconfig.txt

$configFile="/home/username/WebService/GoogleHack/Datafiles/initconfig.txt";

2)If your ghack server is running behind a firewall, you will need to edit the file /etc/sysconfig/iptables to allow clients to connect to the machine through the port you had given. There is a line that looks like this:

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp --dport XXXXX -j ACCEPT

Where XXXXX is the port that your client will be connecting to (the value of $localport in ghack_server.pl).

Now start the server by running the ghack_server.pl as you would run a regular perl file.

AUTHOR

Ted Pedersen, <tpederse@d.umn.edu>

Pratheepan Raveendranathan, <rave0029@d.umn.edu>

Jason Michelizzi, <mich0212@d.umn.edu>

Date 11/08/2004

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2003 by Pratheepan Raveendranathan, Ted Pedersen, Jason Michelizzi

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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The Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.