-<li>Create the base Freeside directory `/var/spool/freeside', and the subdirectories `conf', `counters', and `export'. <pre>mkdir /var/spool/freeside
-mkdir /var/spool/freeside/conf
-mkdir /var/spool/freeside/counters
-mkdir /var/spool/freeside/export
-chown -R freeside /var/spool/freeside</pre>
- <li>Create the necessary <a href="config.html">configuration files</a>.
- <li>Run bin/fs-setup to create the database tables.
+ <li>Use Apache's <a href="http://www.apache.org/docs/suexec.html">suEXEC</a>.
+<pre>cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside
+chown -R freeside .
+chmod 755 browse/*.cgi edit/*.cgi edit/process/*.cgi misc/*.cgi misc/process/*.cgi search/*.cgi view/*.cgi</pre>
+ <li>Use <a href="http://perl.apache.org/">mod_perl</a>. You should run a separate iteration of Apache[-SSL] as the freeside user. (Warning: The redirect method of CGI.pm 2.36 [as distributed with Perl 5.004_04] is broken under mod_perl. Downlaod the current version from <a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/CGI">CPAN</a>. Apache 1.3.6 is also highly recommended because of signal handling problems in earlier versions.)
+<pre>cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside
+chown -R root .
+chmod 755 browse/*.cgi edit/*.cgi edit/process/*.cgi misc/*.cgi misc/process/*.cgi search/*.cgi view/*.cgi</pre>
+ </ul>
+<li>Create the necessary <a href="config.html">configuration files</a>.
+<li>Create the `/usr/local/etc/freeside/counters.<i>datasrc</i>', and
+ `/usr/local/etc/freeside/export.<i>datasrc</i>' directories for each <i>datasrc</i> (owned by the freeside user).
+ <li>As the freeside user, run bin/fs-setup to create the database tables.