4.1. Installing Nikto
Nikto is available on its
author''s web site at http://www.cirt.net. Download the latest
tar.gz file of the Nikto source code. After
uncompressing it, execute perl nikto.pl from the
command line to see the program''s options. This
chapter was written using Nikto 1.32 as a reference, but future
versions should be very similar, as the core is stable.
To use Nikto you must have a Perl interpreter on your system. If you
want to use Nikto''s SSL scanning features you must
install the SSL software and libraries. You can
get these for Windows systems from http://www.activestate.com/. If
you''re running Nikto on a Unix-like system, you can
get
OpenSSL from http://www.openssl.org/ and the
Net::SSLeay module from http://www.cpan.org/. At its foundation Nikto
uses
RFP''s LibWhisker, which
comes bundled with the tar.gz file; optionally
you can place Nikto in the Perl library search path.
Nikto runs on a variety of operating systems, including Mac OS X,
Solaris, Linux, Windows, and many others, as long as a Perl
interpreter is installed on the system.