Running scripts from another site

Can I do it?

[Birdman]

Been trying to install scripts on our hosts server to no avail. So I got a free 50mb site from Hypermart with easy CGI installation(FDSE directed me there). Got the script(internal se) installed easily.
Question: Can I configure it to work from the site I originally intended to install it on?

Thanks!

[mack]

If you just want the search engine to work for your site you could have the search box located on site "a" and have the actual search script hosted on site "b" with the homelink on site "b" heading to site "a" (from your serps)

another thing that sometimes works is to use a path to your script that leads to your other server... may work...hope you have sucess.

[Birdman]

Thanx, Mack. That sounds promising. I want the search box on site a and results posted to site a. Site b has very annoying pop-ups. I'm gonna check out the source code for the search page on site b to see the path and try to follow that path from my search on site a.

[mack]

should work....
what about parsing the results from site b to site a ..almost like a meta search but using your results from site b

[Birdman]

Alright, I have the search box working on site a, but still redirects to site b results. I guess now I need to alter the script now. That is gonna be the hard part(finding the right file). If anyone is using FDSE search script and knows what file to alter, I would appreciate it.

[richlowe]

Hi, just a quick note of caution. Some free hosts's terms and conditions don't allow you to do this kind of cross- scripting. You might want to read their TOS to be sure before you do it ...

JUst a thought.
Richard Lowe

[Birdman]

9.5.6 To provide CGI for any third party;

I guess you're right, richlowe.

[brotherhood of LAN]

Hey Birdman,

What you are doing is a carbon copy of what I was doing about 6 months ago ...... almost down to a T.

You might want to think about getting yourself some paid hosting...you can get a decent (and reliable) host with no pop ups for only a few dollars a month.....

[Birdman]

Brotherhood: We have a paid host, but they don't seem to like people fooling with scripts on thier server. I am currently awaiting an answer back from them about placing some CGI scripts. I asked them awhile back about it and I believe they told me they had to place the scripts themselves so they could review it. Maybe I need to find another host that will allow me to do it myself. Or, maybe they will put it on for me(at a charge I'm sure). I like to do things myself, in case I want to tweak something along the way. Not that I couold tweak perl much at this stage, but that's why I need to be able to mess with it.

Thanks for the replies,
Birdman :)

[brotherhood of LAN]

Hope Im not overstepping the equality line too much.....(in regards to any old host) but westhost (foot of page) is who I got a cheap account with....to play around with PHP and mySQL.

You can do the "easy install" on this server no probs...and i pay a few dollars to play around with it.

I realise this is swaying off topic from the thread but it seems you are doing what I'm thinking :)

[Birdman]

Sound pretty on-topic to me. So, you suggest I get a paid host and use them for my scripts for the real site? And to learn with! I really want to implement this stuff!

[richlowe]

In my opinion, a paid host would be great. Then you can use all of the scripts you want, whereever you want, because you are paying for it. Personally, I prefer to go further and use a dedicated box, but that's a little more expensive.

Richard Lowe