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                    <h1>Running Report Magic Under CGI</h1>
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<p>Report Magic can be run as a CGI application. This means you can create a 
form on your web site that users can select option from and Report Magic will
build reports on-the-fly. To do this it runs Analog in the background to process
your log files (or cache files). It is assumed you know how to configure your
web server to run CGI applications and that you are familiar with setting 
permissions for them.</p>

<p>To run Report Magic as a CGI application, you must install it in your CGI 
folder on your web server. This folder is often called <code>cgi-bin</code> on
Unix servers and <code>Scripts</code> on IIS servers. When running in CGI mode
Report Magic will only read the <code>rmagic.ini</code> file located in the 
same directory as the Report Magic application. For security reasons, you cannot
specify an alternate file from the command-line.</p>

<p>Next copy the basic form <code>rmform.html</code> from the distribution
to a readable location on your web site (often files in the CGI folder can be run or 
executed, but not read). If you want, you can also create your own form. In either 
case you will need to edit the file to specify the URL to your Report Magic 
application.</p>

<p>Now add a <code>[CGI]</code> section to your <code>rmagic.ini</code> settings
file and an item, <code>Analog</code> that tells Report Magic where to find you
Analog executable. This section might look like this:</p>

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<p>Analog and Report Magic will ignore some command from the CGI interface. The 
defaults on this are safe but may not be as secure as you'd wish them. See the CGI 
section of <a href="config.html#cgi">Building You Settings File</a> for details on 
how to limit other commands and additional settings.</p>

<p>Once you have all this configured, you should be able to enter the values you
want in the form and run the report. Depending on the size of your log files this
could take a while to run.</p>

<h3>Charts</h3>
<p>If you want charts in your CGI-produced reports, then you need to tell Report
Magic where to store them. You can do this with the <code>Path_To</code> and 
<code>URL_To</code> settings in the <code>[graphs]</code> seciton of your settings
file. <code>Path_To</code> tells Report Magic which folder on the server to write 
the images to. <code>URL_To</code> tells your browser where to find them. See 
<a href="repconf.html#graphs">the Graphs section of Report Settings</a> for more
details on these commands.</p>


 
        

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