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FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Does anyone know of anywhere where I can put my VDS CGI Scripts on the web? The last place I tried ([url]free.prohosting.com[/url]) allowed CGI on their servers, but only .cgi and .pl...you can't use executables as CGI because of the way their servers are set up. Crying or Very sad

Where can I put my VDS CGI Scripts so they can sucessfully execute?

Thanks a lot for any information! Very Happy

Garrett · Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 6:03 pm Post subject:

Have you tried renaming your exe's to .cgi?

Well, that works provided their server is NT or Win based and not Nix based.

I've used .cgi for exe's on a couple of IIS servers before and I think also on one Win32Apache server.

PK knows of a low cost hosting service that he's used before and ran VDS exe's from.... I can't remember the name or URL though.

-Garrett

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Hi Garrett,

I tried renaming the .exe to .cgi with no luck. Apparently it is on an Apache server, but does not execute, even when renamed as .cgi

Here's the error it gives me:

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

P.S.: If anyone knows a place that would execute VDS CGI scripts, tell me! Smile

Thanks,

Tommy · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 11:02 am Post subject:

This is the one Prakash was using before:

http://www.parcom.net/

Please note that it's a paid host. I doubt you would find any free hosts which would allow .exe CGI, if they're even running on Windows at all.

Tommy

Garrett · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 7:07 pm Post subject:

Yes, that's it.. Parcom... Mind you, it is a paid host, but the price is seriously inexpensive.

-Garrett

LinkSisco · Valued Newbie Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 30 Location: UK

You could always goto downloads.com and get a freeware webserver.
That what i did when i was testing my pl scripts.

All you need is a web server such as website or analogx which support cgi/perl etc, and a copy of perl which you can get from www.activestate.com.

Hope thats of some help to you...

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Thanks...I agree, parcom.net is a good price for hosting...it seems as if it is reliable too! Smile

I will also probably try using a webserver of my own...the only downside to that is that you must have your computer running all the time for it to work...but I will look into it.

By the way, I tried some places that I can't stand; they never worked! Just to save some people some time, here is a list of them:

http://www.xoasis.com
http://www.php50.com
http://www.spaceports.com
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http://free.prohosting.com <-- This one is a great place, but they did not allow .exe cgi scripts coded in VDS...

Thanks again... Smile

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Does anyone know what service VDS CGI prog's will work under on parcom.net?

I think it will probably work under "entry"...please help!!

Garrett · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 1:39 am Post subject:

I tried the Basic package. The only problem I had is that I had to use FrontPage to setup the cgi for some reason.

-Garrett

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Thanks for the tip... Smile