BaKa Plan

This software creates seating plan for examinations. It provides five different strategies to create seat plan.

REQUIREMENTS:

1) GNU G++ Compiler
2) Configure public_html and cgi-bin in home
3) CGICC Library
4) MySQL Connector for C++
5) Boost Library
6) jwSMTP Library

Installation of requirements

1. GNU G++ Compiler

Run following command in terminal to install

$ sudo apt-get install g++

2. Configure public_html/cgi-bin folder for executing files on browser.
   Assuming you already installed apache if not then run following command in terminal

   $ sudo apt-get install apache2

Steps to configure public_html

$ mkdir ~/public_html

$ sudo a2enmod userdir
    
$ sudo service apache2 restart

Give 755 permissions to public_html directory

$ chmod -R 755 ~/public_html

Now open http://localhost/~username in browser. Here username is your login name.

Steps to configure cgi-bin in public_html

$ sudo a2enmod cgi

$ sudo a2enmod cgid

$ sudo service apache2 restart
 
$ cd ~/public_html

$ mkdir cgi-bin

$ cd /etc/apache2

$ sudo vim sites-available/default

Add following text in file:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/home/*/public_html/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    SetHandler cgi-script
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Save it and then restart apache

$ sudo service apache2 restart

3. CGICC Library
   

Run following command in terminal

$ sudo apt-get install libcgicc-dev

OR

Download any latest package from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cgicc/

Then run following commands in terminal

$ tar xzf cgicc-X.X.X.tar.gz 

$ cd cgicc-X.X.X/ 

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr 

$ make

$ sudo make install

4. MySQL and MySQL Connector for C++

Run following commands in terminal

$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

$ sudo apt-get install libmysql++

$ sudo apt-get install libmysql++-dev

5. Boost Library

Run following command in terminal

$ sudo apt-get install libboost1.53-dev 

6. jwSMTP Library

Download jwSMTP Library

Follow steps to install

$ cd ~/Downloads
$ tar -xzf jwsmtp-X.X.X.tar.gz
$ cd jwsmtp-X.X.X
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

NOTE: If you got error in */mailer.cpp or */demo2.cpp file then
include string header file in that. And again run make

INSTALLATION:

Check INSTALLATION steps for using this software.

AUTHORS:

Mentor and Manager

Dr. Hardeep Singh Rai

Website: http://gndec.ac.in/~hsrai

Developers

Mandeep Kaur

Website: http://mandeepsimak.wordpress.com

Email: baithnekaplan [AT] gmail.com