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CGI-Scripts and Programming Languages

1. Do you include preinstalled cgi-scripts with my account?
2. Can I compile programs written in C and C++?
3. Can I install my own CGI Scripts?
4. What type of Java support do you offer?; 5. What programming languages are available?
6. Formmail Instructions
7. Do you offer PGP?
8. What is the path to perl and sendmail?
9. How do I add Java to my server?
10. How can I run CGIs from any directory?; 11. Can I run CGI scripts from any directory?; 12. How do I install Mailreader?; 13. Freeware CGI-script basic guide.
14. Where do I upload my CGI-Scripts?

1. Do you include preinstalled cgi-scripts with my account? - Top
Yes, currently we provide 17 pre-installed cgi-scripts.

Pre-Installed Cgi Scripts

That's an Order shop cart

Visitor Book pro

Multi-user Forums

Formmail

Cgiemail

Quiz Master

Postcards

Vote/survey

Whois

Click and go

Simple site search

SFE page search

Power Page Search

Free for all links

Random text display

Graphical counter

Text based counter

- Updated: March 26, 2001

2. Can I compile programs written in C and C++? - Top
Yes, we offer the standard GCC compiler.

The C and C++ compilers are integrated. Both process input files through one or more of four stages: preprocessing, compilation, assembly, and linking. Source filename suffixes identify the source language, but which name you use for the compiler governs default assumptions.

- Updated: March 29, 2000

3. Can I install my own CGI Scripts? - Top
Yes. Each account comes fully equipped with its own pre-configured CGI-Bin. Customers are free to use any of the CGI scripts included free with their account or any others they may wish to add to their account. We only monitor for poorly written CGI Scripts, as use of these scripts on high traffic sites may affect the normal functioning of our servers and in turn affect the performance of other web sites hosted on that server.
- Updated: March 29, 2000

4. What type of Java support do you offer? - Top
Currently Java jdk 1.1.5 is installed on all our servers. We support Java applets and not Java servlets. - Updated: June 20, 2001

5. What programming languages are available? - Top
The following full programming languages are available:

Perl5

Python

TCL

Expect

C and C++

We also provide the following 3rd party scripting engines:

Miva

PHP4

- Updated: June 20, 2001

6. Formmail Instructions - Top
This script is one from Matt's Script Archive which we have installed and preconfigured for your domain. FormMail is a generic www form to e-mail gateway, which will parse the results of any form and send them to the specified user. This script has many formatting and functional options, most of which can be specified through the form. This means you don’t need any programming knowledge, nor do you need multiple scripts for multiple forms. This also makes FormMail the perfect system wide solution for allowing users form-based user feedback capabilities without the risks of allowing freedom of CGI access.

There is only one form field that you must have in your form, for FormMail to work correctly. This is the recipient field. Other hidden configuration fields can also be used to enhance the operation of FormMail on your site.
The action of your form needs to point towards this script, and the method must be POST in capital letters. Here's an example of the form fields to put in your form:

Recipient Field
Description:. This form field allows you to specify to whom your form results will be mailed Most likely you will want to configure this option as a hidden form field with a value equal to that of your email address.
Syntax:

Subject Field
Description: The subject field will allow you to specify the subject that you wish to appear in the email that is sent to you after the form has been filled out. If you do not have this option turned on, then the script will default to a message subject: "WWW Form Submission".
Syntax: If you wish to choose what the subject is:

To allow the user to choose a subject:

Email Field
Description: This form field will allow the user to specify their return email address. If you want to be able to return e-mail to your user, it is strongly suggested that you include this form. This will be put into
the From: field of the message you receive. If you want to require an email address with valid syntax, add this field name to the 'required' field.
Syntax:

Realname Field
Description: The realname form field will allow the user to input their real name. This field is useful for identification purposes and will also be put into the From: line of your message header.
Syntax:

Redirect Field
Description: If you wish to redirect the user to a different URL, rather than having them see the default response to the fill-out form, you can use this hidden variable to send them to a pre-made HTML page.
Syntax: To choose the URL they will end up at:

To allow them to specify a URL they wish to travel to once the form is filled out:

Required Field
Description: You can require certain fields in your form to be filled in before the user can successfully submit the form. Simply place all field names that you want to be mandatory into this field, separated by commas. If the required fields are not filled in, the user will be notified of what they need to fill in, and a link back to the form they just submitted will be provided.
To use a customized error page, see 'missing_fields_redirect'
Syntax: If you want to require that they fill in the email and phone fields in your form, so that you can reach them once you have received the mail, use the syntax like:

- Updated: September 25, 2001

7. Do you offer PGP? - Top
Yes. PGP which runs from commandline is offered as a unsupported service. Logged in as root user run client_tools, select menu 4 for script installs than PGP commandline as the option.

- Updated: August 3, 2001

8. What is the path to perl and sendmail? - Top
perl /usr/bin/perl
sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail

- Updated: May 16, 2001

9. How do I add Java to my server? - Top
We can add JDK 1.1.8 to Your server environment. Just email sales to make the request. Please keep in mind before making the request that this will require 41 megs of space.

- Updated: March 15, 2001

10. How can I run CGIs from any directory? - Top
To enable CGI scripts for all your web directories, you need to edit the configuration file for Apache:

1. Enable the Handler type for ".cgi" files:

In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf make sure the line "AddHandler cgi-script .cgi" is uncommented, if it isn't already.

2. Enable ExecCGI:

In httpd.conf, make sure your main web directory has ExecCGI enabled. All the sub-directories under it will inherit the properties of the parent directories unless you specifically disallow it (via .htaccess files, for example).

So you want the ... entry for /home/httpd/html (or wherever your DocumentRoot is) to include "ExecCGI" in the "Options" list.

For example:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI

(other directives...)

You may also opt to use "Options All", which enables all the available options. You can refer to the Apache docs
http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#options for more details on the Options directive.

3. Restart your Apache web server, to apply the changes.

- Updated: March 15, 2001

11. Can I run CGI scripts from any directory? - Top
No. By default the server is set-up so CGI scripts will only run from the cgi-bin directory. You can however make changes to your Apache config to activate this on all domains. Since there are security issues involved, we suggest you use a .htaccess file in the main HTML directory on only the domains that require this, using the following entries:

AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi
Options ExecCGI

- Updated: March 15, 2001

12. How do I install Mailreader? - Top
Mailreader Setup

Log into the system as root user.

Type client_tools [hit return]

Select #4 for mailreader

Enter domain to add mailreader to.

- Updated: April 25, 2001

13. Freeware CGI-script basic guide. - Top
Script Installs
The Web Control panel allows you to install several scripts, below find browser paths to the Authors instructions that our installed for you with the installation. The scripts will be active within 10 minutes of submission.

*VBPRO Guestbook http://yourdomain-here.com/vbpro/docs

Forums http://yourdomain-here.com/forums/cgi-s/

Thats an Order http://yourdomain-here.com/lto.htm

Free For all Links - (Freeware)
http://yourdomain-here.com/links/manual.htm

Whois - (Freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi

Graphic Counter - (freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/counter/

Postcards - (freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/cards

pollit - (freeware) add polling to your site.
http://yourdomain-here.com/pollit

Quiz Master - (freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/quiz

SFE Power search-(freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/search/instruct.htm

PhpMyAdmin -(freeware) http://yourdomainname-here.com/phpmyadmin. Requires the file /phpmyadmin/config.inc.php3 be configured for your DB.
Docs located at http://yourdomainname-here.com/phpmyadmin/documentation.html

* VBPRo by default has the email options disabled at program level.

Note:
All freeware scripts are made available in working order when installed from webcontrol, we cannot offer help in customizing or trouble shooting scripts you choose to change. If you should decide to try to change default settings and than the script becomes non functional just submit a reinstall from webcontrol to set it back as new.

- Updated: April 27, 2001

14. Where do I upload my CGI-Scripts? - Top
You should upload your CGI-Scripts to the CGI-Bin directory.
CGI-Bin: /home/userid/webscripts

Please note: Your userid is the username you chose when you signed up for your account.

- Updated: March 15, 2001

2. Can I compile programs written in C and C++? - Top
Yes, we offer the standard GCC compiler.

The C and C++ compilers are integrated. Both process input files through one or more of four stages: preprocessing, compilation, assembly, and linking. Source filename suffixes identify the source language, but which name you use for the compiler governs default assumptions.

- Updated: March 29, 2000

3. Can I install my own CGI Scripts? - Top
Yes. Each account comes fully equipped with its own pre-configured CGI-Bin. Customers are free to use any of the CGI scripts included free with their account or any others they may wish to add to their account. We only monitor for poorly written CGI Scripts, as use of these scripts on high traffic sites may affect the normal functioning of our servers and in turn affect the performance of other web sites hosted on that server.
- Updated: March 29, 2000

4. What type of Java support do you offer? - Top
Currently Java jdk 1.1.5 is installed on all our servers. We support Java applets and not Java servlets. - Updated: June 20, 2001

5. What programming languages are available? - Top
The following full programming languages are available:

Perl5

Python

TCL

Expect

C and C++

We also provide the following 3rd party scripting engines:

Miva

PHP4

- Updated: June 20, 2001

6. Formmail Instructions - Top
This script is one from Matt's Script Archive which we have installed and preconfigured for your domain. FormMail is a generic www form to e-mail gateway, which will parse the results of any form and send them to the specified user. This script has many formatting and functional options, most of which can be specified through the form. This means you don’t need any programming knowledge, nor do you need multiple scripts for multiple forms. This also makes FormMail the perfect system wide solution for allowing users form-based user feedback capabilities without the risks of allowing freedom of CGI access.

There is only one form field that you must have in your form, for FormMail to work correctly. This is the recipient field. Other hidden configuration fields can also be used to enhance the operation of FormMail on your site.
The action of your form needs to point towards this script, and the method must be POST in capital letters. Here's an example of the form fields to put in your form:

Recipient Field
Description:. This form field allows you to specify to whom your form results will be mailed Most likely you will want to configure this option as a hidden form field with a value equal to that of your email address.
Syntax:

Subject Field
Description: The subject field will allow you to specify the subject that you wish to appear in the email that is sent to you after the form has been filled out. If you do not have this option turned on, then the script will default to a message subject: "WWW Form Submission".
Syntax: If you wish to choose what the subject is:

To allow the user to choose a subject:

Email Field
Description: This form field will allow the user to specify their return email address. If you want to be able to return e-mail to your user, it is strongly suggested that you include this form. This will be put into
the From: field of the message you receive. If you want to require an email address with valid syntax, add this field name to the 'required' field.
Syntax:

Realname Field
Description: The realname form field will allow the user to input their real name. This field is useful for identification purposes and will also be put into the From: line of your message header.
Syntax:

Redirect Field
Description: If you wish to redirect the user to a different URL, rather than having them see the default response to the fill-out form, you can use this hidden variable to send them to a pre-made HTML page.
Syntax: To choose the URL they will end up at:

To allow them to specify a URL they wish to travel to once the form is filled out:

Required Field
Description: You can require certain fields in your form to be filled in before the user can successfully submit the form. Simply place all field names that you want to be mandatory into this field, separated by commas. If the required fields are not filled in, the user will be notified of what they need to fill in, and a link back to the form they just submitted will be provided.
To use a customized error page, see 'missing_fields_redirect'
Syntax: If you want to require that they fill in the email and phone fields in your form, so that you can reach them once you have received the mail, use the syntax like:

- Updated: September 25, 2001

7. Do you offer PGP? - Top
Yes. PGP which runs from commandline is offered as a unsupported service. Logged in as root user run client_tools, select menu 4 for script installs than PGP commandline as the option.

- Updated: August 3, 2001

8. What is the path to perl and sendmail? - Top
perl /usr/bin/perl
sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail

- Updated: May 16, 2001

9. How do I add Java to my server? - Top
We can add JDK 1.1.8 to Your server environment. Just email sales to make the request. Please keep in mind before making the request that this will require 41 megs of space.

- Updated: March 15, 2001

10. How can I run CGIs from any directory? - Top
To enable CGI scripts for all your web directories, you need to edit the configuration file for Apache:

1. Enable the Handler type for ".cgi" files:

In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf make sure the line "AddHandler cgi-script .cgi" is uncommented, if it isn't already.

2. Enable ExecCGI:

In httpd.conf, make sure your main web directory has ExecCGI enabled. All the sub-directories under it will inherit the properties of the parent directories unless you specifically disallow it (via .htaccess files, for example).

So you want the ... entry for /home/httpd/html (or wherever your DocumentRoot is) to include "ExecCGI" in the "Options" list.

For example:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI

(other directives...)

You may also opt to use "Options All", which enables all the available options. You can refer to the Apache docs
http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#options for more details on the Options directive.

3. Restart your Apache web server, to apply the changes.

- Updated: March 15, 2001

11. Can I run CGI scripts from any directory? - Top
No. By default the server is set-up so CGI scripts will only run from the cgi-bin directory. You can however make changes to your Apache config to activate this on all domains. Since there are security issues involved, we suggest you use a .htaccess file in the main HTML directory on only the domains that require this, using the following entries:

AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi
Options ExecCGI

- Updated: March 15, 2001

12. How do I install Mailreader? - Top
Mailreader Setup

Log into the system as root user.

Type client_tools [hit return]

Select #4 for mailreader

Enter domain to add mailreader to.

- Updated: April 25, 2001

13. Freeware CGI-script basic guide. - Top
Script Installs
The Web Control panel allows you to install several scripts, below find browser paths to the Authors instructions that our installed for you with the installation. The scripts will be active within 10 minutes of submission.

*VBPRO Guestbook http://yourdomain-here.com/vbpro/docs

Forums http://yourdomain-here.com/forums/cgi-s/

Thats an Order http://yourdomain-here.com/lto.htm

Free For all Links - (Freeware)
http://yourdomain-here.com/links/manual.htm

Whois - (Freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi

Graphic Counter - (freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/counter/

Postcards - (freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/cards

pollit - (freeware) add polling to your site.
http://yourdomain-here.com/pollit

Quiz Master - (freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/quiz

SFE Power search-(freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/search/instruct.htm

PhpMyAdmin -(freeware) http://yourdomainname-here.com/phpmyadmin. Requires the file /phpmyadmin/config.inc.php3 be configured for your DB.
Docs located at http://yourdomainname-here.com/phpmyadmin/documentation.html

* VBPRo by default has the email options disabled at program level.

Note:
All freeware scripts are made available in working order when installed from webcontrol, we cannot offer help in customizing or trouble shooting scripts you choose to change. If you should decide to try to change default settings and than the script becomes non functional just submit a reinstall from webcontrol to set it back as new.

- Updated: April 27, 2001

14. Where do I upload my CGI-Scripts? - Top
You should upload your CGI-Scripts to the CGI-Bin directory.
CGI-Bin: /home/userid/webscripts

Please note: Your userid is the username you chose when you signed up for your account.

- Updated: March 15, 2001: - Updated: June 20, 2001


6. Formmail Instructions - Top
This script is one from Matt's Script Archive which we have installed and preconfigured for your domain. FormMail is a generic www form to e-mail gateway, which will parse the results of any form and send them to the specified user. This script has many formatting and functional options, most of which can be specified through the form. This means you don’t need any programming knowledge, nor do you need multiple scripts for multiple forms. This also makes FormMail the perfect system wide solution for allowing users form-based user feedback capabilities without the risks of allowing freedom of CGI access.

There is only one form field that you must have in your form, for FormMail to work correctly. This is the recipient field. Other hidden configuration fields can also be used to enhance the operation of FormMail on your site.
The action of your form needs to point towards this script, and the method must be POST in capital letters. Here's an example of the form fields to put in your form:: Recipient Field
Description:. This form field allows you to specify to whom your form results will be mailed Most likely you will want to configure this option as a hidden form field with a value equal to that of your email address.
Syntax:

Subject Field
Description: The subject field will allow you to specify the subject that you wish to appear in the email that is sent to you after the form has been filled out. If you do not have this option turned on, then the script will default to a message subject: "WWW Form Submission".
Syntax: If you wish to choose what the subject is:

To allow the user to choose a subject:

Email Field
Description: This form field will allow the user to specify their return email address. If you want to be able to return e-mail to your user, it is strongly suggested that you include this form. This will be put into
the From: field of the message you receive. If you want to require an email address with valid syntax, add this field name to the 'required' field.
Syntax:

Realname Field
Description: The realname form field will allow the user to input their real name. This field is useful for identification purposes and will also be put into the From: line of your message header.
Syntax:

Redirect Field
Description: If you wish to redirect the user to a different URL, rather than having them see the default response to the fill-out form, you can use this hidden variable to send them to a pre-made HTML page.
Syntax: To choose the URL they will end up at:

To allow them to specify a URL they wish to travel to once the form is filled out:

Required Field
Description: You can require certain fields in your form to be filled in before the user can successfully submit the form. Simply place all field names that you want to be mandatory into this field, separated by commas. If the required fields are not filled in, the user will be notified of what they need to fill in, and a link back to the form they just submitted will be provided.
To use a customized error page, see 'missing_fields_redirect'
Syntax: If you want to require that they fill in the email and phone fields in your form, so that you can reach them once you have received the mail, use the syntax like:

- Updated: September 25, 2001

7. Do you offer PGP? - Top
Yes. PGP which runs from commandline is offered as a unsupported service. Logged in as root user run client_tools, select menu 4 for script installs than PGP commandline as the option.

- Updated: August 3, 2001

8. What is the path to perl and sendmail? - Top
perl /usr/bin/perl
sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail

- Updated: May 16, 2001

9. How do I add Java to my server? - Top
We can add JDK 1.1.8 to Your server environment. Just email sales to make the request. Please keep in mind before making the request that this will require 41 megs of space.

- Updated: March 15, 2001

10. How can I run CGIs from any directory? - Top
To enable CGI scripts for all your web directories, you need to edit the configuration file for Apache:

1. Enable the Handler type for ".cgi" files:

In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf make sure the line "AddHandler cgi-script .cgi" is uncommented, if it isn't already.

2. Enable ExecCGI:

In httpd.conf, make sure your main web directory has ExecCGI enabled. All the sub-directories under it will inherit the properties of the parent directories unless you specifically disallow it (via .htaccess files, for example).

So you want the ... entry for /home/httpd/html (or wherever your DocumentRoot is) to include "ExecCGI" in the "Options" list.

For example:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI

(other directives...)

You may also opt to use "Options All", which enables all the available options. You can refer to the Apache docs
http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#options for more details on the Options directive.

3. Restart your Apache web server, to apply the changes.

- Updated: March 15, 2001

11. Can I run CGI scripts from any directory? - Top
No. By default the server is set-up so CGI scripts will only run from the cgi-bin directory. You can however make changes to your Apache config to activate this on all domains. Since there are security issues involved, we suggest you use a .htaccess file in the main HTML directory on only the domains that require this, using the following entries:

AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi
Options ExecCGI

- Updated: March 15, 2001

12. How do I install Mailreader? - Top
Mailreader Setup

Log into the system as root user.

Type client_tools [hit return]

Select #4 for mailreader

Enter domain to add mailreader to.

- Updated: April 25, 2001

13. Freeware CGI-script basic guide. - Top
Script Installs
The Web Control panel allows you to install several scripts, below find browser paths to the Authors instructions that our installed for you with the installation. The scripts will be active within 10 minutes of submission.

*VBPRO Guestbook http://yourdomain-here.com/vbpro/docs

Forums http://yourdomain-here.com/forums/cgi-s/

Thats an Order http://yourdomain-here.com/lto.htm

Free For all Links - (Freeware)
http://yourdomain-here.com/links/manual.htm

Whois - (Freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi

Graphic Counter - (freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/counter/

Postcards - (freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/cards

pollit - (freeware) add polling to your site.
http://yourdomain-here.com/pollit

Quiz Master - (freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/quiz

SFE Power search-(freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/search/instruct.htm

PhpMyAdmin -(freeware) http://yourdomainname-here.com/phpmyadmin. Requires the file /phpmyadmin/config.inc.php3 be configured for your DB.
Docs located at http://yourdomainname-here.com/phpmyadmin/documentation.html

* VBPRo by default has the email options disabled at program level.

Note:
All freeware scripts are made available in working order when installed from webcontrol, we cannot offer help in customizing or trouble shooting scripts you choose to change. If you should decide to try to change default settings and than the script becomes non functional just submit a reinstall from webcontrol to set it back as new.

- Updated: April 27, 2001

14. Where do I upload my CGI-Scripts? - Top
You should upload your CGI-Scripts to the CGI-Bin directory.
CGI-Bin: /home/userid/webscripts

Please note: Your userid is the username you chose when you signed up for your account.

- Updated: March 15, 2001

13. Freeware CGI-script basic guide. - Top
Script Installs
The Web Control panel allows you to install several scripts, below find browser paths to the Authors instructions that our installed for you with the installation. The scripts will be active within 10 minutes of submission.

*VBPRO Guestbook http://yourdomain-here.com/vbpro/docs

Forums http://yourdomain-here.com/forums/cgi-s/

Thats an Order http://yourdomain-here.com/lto.htm

Free For all Links - (Freeware)
http://yourdomain-here.com/links/manual.htm

Whois - (Freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi

Graphic Counter - (freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/counter/

Postcards - (freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/cards

pollit - (freeware) add polling to your site.
http://yourdomain-here.com/pollit

Quiz Master - (freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/quiz

SFE Power search-(freeware) http://yourdomain-here.com/search/instruct.htm

PhpMyAdmin -(freeware) http://yourdomainname-here.com/phpmyadmin. Requires the file /phpmyadmin/config.inc.php3 be configured for your DB.
Docs located at http://yourdomainname-here.com/phpmyadmin/documentation.html

* VBPRo by default has the email options disabled at program level.

Note:
All freeware scripts are made available in working order when installed from webcontrol, we cannot offer help in customizing or trouble shooting scripts you choose to change. If you should decide to try to change default settings and than the script becomes non functional just submit a reinstall from webcontrol to set it back as new.

- Updated: April 27, 2001

14. Where do I upload my CGI-Scripts? - Top
You should upload your CGI-Scripts to the CGI-Bin directory.
CGI-Bin: /home/userid/webscripts

Please note: Your userid is the username you chose when you signed up for your account.

- Updated: March 15, 2001

14. Where do I upload my CGI-Scripts? - Top
You should upload your CGI-Scripts to the CGI-Bin directory.
CGI-Bin: /home/userid/webscripts

Please note: Your userid is the username you chose when you signed up for your account.

- Updated: March 15, 2001