Re: using cgi-bin

Some providers will not give the permissions to the site owners.  If you
really wish to work with your own CGI, your best bet may be to get a
provider who does allow this (I believe most do...mine does)...

Darrell

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----- Original Message -----
From: <joni(at)guidinghands.org>
To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 12:44 PM
Subject: using cgi-bin


>      Please bear with me as I am very ignorant on this subject and
>      searching for enlightment.  Hopefully I am posting to the right list
>      :-)
>
>      I am trying to use our sites personal cgi-bin on the server where our
>      site is being hosted.  The problem was first that I could not put any
>      scripts into the bin because I didn't have executable rights, I
>      believe.  Anyway, the administrator there told me he could not give
me
>      both write and execute rights and that he would move the scripts into
>      the bin for me.  Now I can not edit the scripts to make them work
>      because I still don't have executable rights and the cgi-bin is an
>      executable folder.
>
>      I was hoping to be able to play around with the scripts a bit to
learn
>      something here.  Am I missing something and if so is there a good
>      place for me to learn this???
>
>      Our site is hosted on an NT server and I have been assured that I can
>      use the bin, no problem (ha!)
>
>      Any help on this matter is greatly appreciated.
>
>      Joni Bozzo
>      Home of Guiding Hands
>      www.guidinghands.org
>
>

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