Installing a Blog on Your Website - Take Me To Perl
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The MySQL database you created with your Web host's control panel should have a username, password, database name, and database address path, which is the database host. Usually, the database host includes the Web hosting company in the following address: mysql.webhostname.com. However, this is not always the case. Nevertheless, you must get the exact address no matter how much digging you have to do (e.g. call the hosting company).
Add this information to the relevant portion of the config file and be sure to uncomment those lines. The database host could be left as is if it says localhost, because this works with many database host addresses, but not all. The failsafe method is to use the exact address. Do not attempt to change the font of any of the information you put in; simply leave it as the default text. Also remove the brackets, if there are any, from around the information.
The second alteration you may have to make involves inserting the server's directory path to its Perl program. The reason I say “may” is because it depends on whether or not a default match exists between your server's path and the one designated in the program files. If the blog program doesn't use Perl, no alteration is required. WordPress, for example, does not use Perl. But if there is no default match, you must locate where the Perl program is in your server's directory structure.
You will probably have to look through the hosting company's help files in order to find it, and if that doesn't work, you will have to contact customer service. Here are the two pieces of information you need to know: the Web host's directory path to Perl and the blog programs directory path to Perl. Like I said, if they don't match by default, you must make them match in every file listed by the program's installation instructions. Again, make sure you edit and save the file in the same location offered by the text editor so that it stays within the root directory of the blog program.
In the next section, I'm going to conclude this article by showing you how to upload the files you just altered and set their permissions.
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