We do not provide free technical
support for cgi programming or debugging. We do, however, make
available the tools for persons interested in using custom cgi
scripts and programs.
Global Server
Utilities:
perl /usr/bin/perl
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
* For Example; To remove
dos carriage returns from a text file on your server called
whatever.pl, enter /usr/bin/dos2unix whatever.pl whatever
Name the output file something different from your original
file or you will loose all the data in your file.
Using Custom
CGI Scripts
1) When you log onto your site
using FTP, you will see a directory called cgi-bin.
2) Copy your cgi script/s into
the cgi-bin directory.
3) Make sure to use ASCII text
mode if you are uploading perl scripts in FTP
4) To make your script/s
executable using FTP from within your cgi-bin directory, enter
the following command:
5) Call your cgi scripts in your
HTML using the following path:
http://www.your_domain.com/cgi-bin/file_name
(replace your_domain.com
with your site's domain name)
(replace
file_name with your script's
file name)
