Make sure you have enough disk space for your databases. As of Jan 15th 1999 the uncompressed sizes of the public FASTA databases supported by ProteinProspector were:
In addition to this the files made by the FA-Index program are between 8-15% of the size of the database.
Untar and uncompress the Prospector distribution set using the commands
'uncompress
prospector__sun.tar.Z' and
tar xvf 'prospector__sun.tar'.
You should then find the following:
If your server generates an error message about access not being allowed to the programs, then you may need to do the following:
Modify your server configuration to allow applications with a .cgi suffix to be run inside the server's document root directory. For the NCSA httpd and Apache servers this is accomplished by adding the following lines to the conf/srm.conf file:
ScriptAlias // /home/httpd/htmldocs//
AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi