cgi scripts

do you need perl?

[tmccann11]

So do you need perl installed server-side in order to run cgi scripts?

Thanks
Tom

[oilman]

yup - most decent hosts out there give you a cgi-bin to work with or allow you to execute from your root folder. If you don't have that your out of luck for running perl scripts.

[tmccann11]

Thanks for the reply. My host doesn't offer cgi for my hosting package. I guess I'll have to use java or javascript for form processing. Do you recommend?

[Brett_Tabke]

If you don't have any server side languages, then browser side js is about your only choice.

[littleman]

Tmccann11, is this a free hosting company? If you pay them and they do not let you run scripts I would move on.

[tmccann11]

I actually pay for my hosting.....$11.99 p/m. I also just went back over the TOS....and I guess my interpretation was mistaken. It says

"You agree to not use the Service to:

(m) collect or store personal data about other users "

and I thought that this only pertained to the free hosting sites. I think I deffinitly need to move on. But I wonder if they consider one of my surfers requesting information as a collecting personal data. Because I tried to use a jave servlet, and recieved this error message,

"Method Not Allowed
The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /servlet/SurveyXMLServlet"
Am I reading this wrong or are they telling me that this violates the TOS? (In your opinion, i've already e-mailed them asking for clarification)

Tom

[txbakers]

Perl isn't the only scripting language available for CGI. You can use vbscript, C++ and other languages as well.

But you do need to be allowed to run scripts.