Backtalk Installation Guide

Part 7: Final Setup and Testing

Version 0.9.6

In this final step, we wrap up the installation and start testing the system.

Try Backtalk.
You should now be ready to test the system. If you are allowing anonymous reading, the entry point is normally http://localhost/cgi-bin/bt. If you are not allowing anonymous reading, the entry point is normally http://localhost/backtalk.html.
Double check the pointers in ``newacct.html''
By the way, did you check to make sure that the pointers in the ``newacct.html'' file really point to the Backtalk URL? We hadn't installed Backtalk yet when we edited that file, so its possible we got them wrong.
Install Pointers to Backtalk.
When you're ready to go public with the system, install pointers to the entry point URL in your system's other web pages.
Exclude Robots from Backtalk.
If you don't allow anonymous users to have read/only access to your conferences, then web indexing systems like AltaVista and WebCrawler won't be able to index your conferences. If you do allow anonymous reading, then it is at least theoretically possible that they might do so (though, so far as I can tell, they don't). If you want a little more insurance that robots won't try to index your conferences, you should create a file named ``robots.txt'' in your system's document root, so that it's URL would be http://localhost/robots.txt, and place the following lines in it:
```
   User-agent: *
   Disallow: /cgi-bin/bt 
```
Or, if you want to block index of all cgi-bin program output, do:
```
   User-agent: *
   Disallow: /cgi-bin/ 
```