Uploading CGI Scripts?
To upload a script, login to your virtual server using
FTP. Once logged in go to the directory where you want to
upload your cgi script to, this is usually /web/cgi-bin.
Make sure that your FTP client is set to ASCII mode (if you
upload in binary mode then your script will not work), upload
your cgi script ensuring that it has a .cgi or .pl extension
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Setting File Permissions for CGI
scripts?
To make a script work then you must make the script executable,
you do this by setting the permissions on the script. A
cgi script should be given the following permissions:-
chmod 700 or owner=read/write/execute,
group=nothing, world=nothing
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Setting CGI scripts Paths
and Variables?
Variables and paths are the parts of the script that you must
configure so that the script knows where data and programs can
be found. Absolute and URLs will most likely be used in cgi
scripts and if so you need to know where they are.
The main paths are as follows:
> PERL - /usr/bin/perl
> PERL 5 - /usr/bin/perl
> Sendmail - /usr/sbin/sendmail
> Date Program - /bin/date
The first line of all PERL scripts must be :
#!usr/bin/perl
An absolute path is a path to a certain file
or directory on the server. For example you might want to
set a variable ($links) to the absolute path to your links.pl
file. When configured properly the link should look like:
$links="/home/www.yourdomain.co.uk/web/cgi-bin/links.pl";
The script may also ask for the URL to this
file (links.pl). If the variable were $links then set it as
follows:
$linksurl="http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/cgi-bin/links.pl";
Scripts obtained from free archives will
almost always require the variables to be defined as we have
done above. This is the most common source of problems
with scripts not working properly so make sure your variables
are set correctly.
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Using PHP scripting?
PHP Version 3 is an HTML-embedded scripting language.
Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and PERL with a
couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in The goal of the
language is to allow web developers to write dynamically
generated pages quickly. All our hosting packages have PHP
configured by default.
To use PHP simply end your filename in .php3. Our servers will
parse the code and dynamically generate the html to return to
the client's browser.
Please note that we only make PHP available on our servers. We
cannot support development related PHP scripting and development
issues.
Further information on PHP can be found at http://ww.php.net
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