How the mirrors at U. of Nottingham Soar Web Site got set up

1. Install Perl (best done by a system administrator)
2. Pull the latest version of mirror from one of these sites:

   	src.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.2.1]
   		directory: computing/archiving/mirror
   		(shortcut packages/mirror) 
   	
           ftp.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.55.75]
           	directory: pub/networking/mirror
   
   	ftp.sun.ac.za [146.232.213.2]
   		directory: pub/packages/mirror
   
   	archive.orst.edu [128.193.4.2]
   		directory: pub/mirrors/src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/archiving/mirror
   		(shortcut pub/packages/mirror)
   

3. Install mirror (best done by a system administrator, but advancd users with space can do it).
4. Read the man pages on mirror.
5. Write a short file that runs with mirror noting where, when and how to pull.
6. Run the command "mirror your-file-here" to establish the mirror. Running mirror creates an update report in a .mirror file. You can see how things went last night.
7. Get the mirror command to run every night by setting up a "cron" file. This was done with the Unix "crontab your-file-here" command referencing the mirror.centro file and the full path of mirror. Type "man crontab" for more help. For reference, -e edits and -l lists.
8. Translate any CGI (common gateway interface) scripts used to search or manipulate your mirror site. In this case, it meant changing the path variables, modifing a two search strings to look for compressed files (ISI kept files uncompressed), and making sure that all files and directories that should be readable, were readable.