CGi-bin ?

[Paul C]

Hi
Is the Cgi bin used by any particular platform/ language. if I add a cgi-bin
to my root folder will permissions be sorted by the server or do I have to
set them
Thanks
Paul M

 

[David Berry]

It's used by CGI / Perl scripts and the web host would set the correct
permissions on the server.

 

[Paul C]

Thanks David
So can you run Perl on a windows server
Paul M

 

[David Berry]

I believe there are Windows versions of Perl available but there's so much
that you can do with ASP, PHP or ASP.NET that I wouldn't want to do it
unless it was something very specialized. I don't think many web hosts run
Perl on Windows either.

 

[Paul C]

Thanks David
I have always used asp on windows. so is perl used mainly on unix servers
Paul M

 

[David Berry]

Correct

Thanks David
I have always used asp on windows. so is perl used mainly on unix servers
Paul M

 

[Paul C]

Thanks David

Correct

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen [FP-MVP]]

Not really, they will mostly run PHP. CGI is very little used these
days.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

 

[David Berry]

But Unix was the platform for it and there are still Perl scripts out there,
such as FormMail, that you could use on a site see
http://www.scriptarchive.com/index.html

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen [FP-MVP]]

Absolutely, CGI isn't quite dead yet. It was just the "mostly" part
I objected to.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

 

[cgi or whatelse?]

hold on.
should I be using ci for my passcode protected database or something else?

 

[cgi or whatelse?]

should i be looking to use cgi or something else for my password proctection

 

[Ronx]

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