-debug() { #change to false to disable debugging
- #true && echo "$*" >>debug
- true && [ -n "$*" ] && echo -E "$*" >>/dev/stderr
- true && [ -z "$*" ] && tee /dev/stderr
-}
-
-# this program is supposed to be symlinked into a http root directory
-# we will use the http root as object storage (data directory) and call sub
-# programs from the directory in which the real executable resides
-# therefore we need to identify the code and data directories _EXEC and _DATA
-call="$0"
-real="$(readlink -f $call)"
-_EXEC="$(dirname "$real")" #execution directory
-_DATA="$(dirname "$call")" #storage directory
-
-[ -w "$_DATA" ] && [ -d "$_DATA" ] || die "storage directory must be writable"
-
-# create directories for object storage
-for each in "$_DATA"/{vcard,ical,cache,temp,mappings}; do
- [ ! -e "$each" ] && mkdir "$each"
- [ -w "$each" ] && [ -d "$each" ] || die "storage $each must be a writable directory"
-done
-touch "$_DATA/mappings/attendance"
-
-# create htaccess file
-[ -f .htaccess ] || cat >.htaccess <<EOF
-Options +ExecCGI
-AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
-DirectoryIndex index.cgi
-EOF
-[ -f .htaccess ] || die "no htaccess file present and unable to create one"
-
-. "$_EXEC/cgi.sh"
-
-cgi_get
-
-. "$_EXEC/constants.sh"