Direct WAIS Support in W3C httpd

1. Get the freeWAIS-0.3 distribution (or newer) from ftp://ftp.cnidr.org/pub/NIDR.tools/freewais
2. Unpack the distribution in the same directory as you unpack the httpd distribution (so that the freeWAIS directory goes into the same directory as WWW.
3. Build the freeWAIS library by going to freeWAIS and typing make.
4. Uncomment the lines setting WAIS related variables in your platform specific makefile in WWW/All/XXX/Makefile.include, where XXX is your machine architecture.
5. Rebuild the entire WWW software, i.e. if you have already compiled it before without WAIS support make sure you delete all the object files by saying in the WWW directory:

           make clean
   

   Then rebuild everything:

           ./BUILD
   

6. Now all you need to do is set the wais_proxy environment variable for your client software, and off you go!