General things about cgi's and SSI's

About UNIX operating system

software pathes on the server

software installed on the server

• Executable scripts must have special permissions (chmod 0755, see UNIX-security) and must have the ending .cgi. The script does not need to be in a special folder (cgi-bin etc.). You can set the permissions with a telnet client or with an ftp-client which supports setting permissions (cute_ftp).
• If your script has the extension .pl you have to change it into .cgi. Possibly you also have to change some pathes inside the cgi-script.
• SSI's must have the extension .shtml.
• Do not put a folder with the name cgi-bin into your home directory. Otherwise you will not have access to the scripts wich are installed on the server. If you want to create a cgi-directory you can call it cgibin instead.
• cgi's must be uploaded in text-modus (not in binary modus).
• an overview of the most important pathes on the server can be foundhere.
• We have installed several standard cgi-scripts on the server for general and free use. Among them are form-to-email scripts, a jump-url-script and counters. A simple guestbook and a wwwboard can be installed for you.
• you can find some interesting cgi-scripts behind the following links:
  • Matt's CGI Scripts
  • Selena Sol's SGI Archiv
  • www.cgi-resources.com

• Under UNIX every file and every directory has an owner and an owner group.
• beyond that every file and every directory has so-called permissions (access permissions). These permissions are displayed in the following form:
  
  drwxrwxrwx - for folders
  
  (the d in the beginning stands for "directory")
  
  -rwxrwxrwx - for files

  these are thre "rwx"-groups. The first is for the owner, the second for the owner-group and the third for all users of the file or the directory.
  rwx represents:
  
  r - reading permissions
  w - writing permissions
  x - execution permissions

  If a file shell be accessable only for the owner then the permissions must be set to -rwx------.
  If a file shell be readable and executable for everybody then the permissions mist be set to -rwxr-xr-x.
  

• Please make sure that your files and directories are not writable by everybody.
• You can change the permissions for a file or a directory in telnet with the command "chmod".

Software-pathes

• directory for www-files: public_html in your home-directory
• configuration file for access statistics: public_html/statistik/webalizer.conf
• directory for public-ftp: public_ftp in your home-directory
• Perl is in /usr/local/bin/perl
• Perl Modules are in /usr/local/lib/perl5
• the quota command for displaying your discspace usage is /usr/sbin/quota
• mSQL2 is in /usr/local/Hughes
• Glimpse is in /usr/local/bin/glimpse-4.0.bin.solaris5.5
• WebGlimpse is in /usr/local/bin/webglimpse-1.1
• Java and JDK are in /usr/java (/usr/java/bin/java for the executable program)
• Sendmail is in /usr/lib/sendmail
• almost all other programs (Compilers etc.) are in /usr/local/bin

• EWS: Excite for Web Servers (simple search engine)
  You must install Excite yourself, with the -noroot option, since every archive requires its own installation.
  
  
• Glimpse (search engine)
  
  
• WebGlimpse (extended search engine)
  
  
• HTGREP (search engine)
  
  
• PHP3/PHP4 (excellent scripting alternative)
  Use with .php3 / .php4 - extension
  
  
• PGP (E-Mail encryption)
  
  
• ActiveVideo
  
  
• mySQL
  In order to setup a mysql-database for you we need a login, a password (not your ftp-password!) and a name for the database. php is installed with full mysql-support.
  
  
• mSQL2/w3-mSQL (database)
  In order tu setup a msql-database for you we need a login, your domain name and a name for the database.