NOTE: FrontPage does not support the use of CGI scripts. If you are using Microsoft FrontPage to edit your Website, you should use the Web Bots included in Microsoft FrontPage. See the FrontPage tutorial for more information.

Where to find good scripts?

There are many online resources offering free scripts that you can download and use. Use a search to find "cgi scripts".

How and where do I upload them to the server?

Use an FTP client and install them in the directory at www.yourdomain.xx/cgi-bin/. Once the script is uploaded, you must make all the .CGI files globally executable.

The way to do this varies between different types of FTP software, however generally you are seeking to highlight each custom CGI by right clicking the mouse on it. Then follow the link to "change files attributes", "change file permissions",or "chmod (UNIX)" and then click all the boxes to execute all permissions.

Platform

If you are trying to install a script written in C or another complied language (ie you wish to use compilable CGI's), you need to know that our platform is Intel Linux.

Website paths

The "path" of their Website is the full directory name of where their Website is located. Programmers use this in their cgi scripts.

Website root path:
/clientdata/www/tld/first letter of your domain name/your domain name/

where, tld = top level domain (the last bit of your domain name - com, or au, or uk, etc)

for example. /clientdata/www/au/n/netregistry.net

Website cgi path:
/clientdata/www/tld/first letter of your domain name/your domain name/cgi-bin/

for example: /clientdata/www/au/n/netregistry.net/cgi-bin/

PERL paths

What is the location or PERL / What is the path to PERL? This is the first line of every perl script.

The location of PERL is /usr/bin/perl. For people that want to check their scripts but have no idea about perl coding, the first line of ANY perl script on our servers should look like #!/usr/bin/perl

Location of the Sendmail program

If your customised program requires the location of our sendmail server, it is "/usr/sbin/sendmail"