THREE Beginner's Mistakes in CGI Installations!

Sooner or later every webmaster needs CGI.

It is difficult to imagine the website
maintainence with out CGI.

CGI scripts can be used to process a simple form
to maintaining a membership area.There are many
scripts online, which can be used to automate
your website.

**Form proccessing
**Autoresponders
**Order taking, Order proccessing
**Steamline your downloads
**Protecting your private folders
**Easy maintanence of the website
**Tracking your advertisements
**Maintaining an affiliate site
**Counters, classifieds, link directories...
There is no end to this list.

But the problem with cgi scripts is 'how to install
on your servers?'

You don't have to learn perl or write scripts
on your own to maintain your CGIs.

As a webmaster of your site you need to know about
installing scripts for yourself.Otherwise you will
end up with paying hundreds of dollars for script
installations.

Basic THREE steps that you should check during
cgi installations are:

1.UPLOADING OF FILES:

CGI files should be uploaded in ASCII mode.In this
mode the 'end-of-line' character translated properly
and the script lines are transfered in proper
format.(In BINARY mode, the characters will not be
translated.Instead they are transfered exactly as
a duplicates)

Tip:DON'T run your FTP software in automode to
upload cgi files.Set it to ASCII mode manually
and upload the files.

2.CONFIGURING THE SCRIPTS:

When you buy a script, you have to set few variables.
So that the script runs correctly on your server.

When you doing this, you should have an idea about your
server perl paths,absolute paths, URLs etc.

The URLs are case sensitive.

Scriptname.cgi
scriptname.cgi
scriptname.pl
Scriptname.pl

All four are taken differently by your server.

3.FILE PERMISSIONS:

Once you upload files, don't rush to run the
script.

Set and check the file permissions.

If you don't set the permissions to cgi or pl files,
the server doesn't get access to your files and
you will see '500 Internal server error'.

Most of the times cgi files need to be '755'.

Always check the instructions of the script providers.

If you are keeping an eye on these three steps,you
can do your script installations!

MORE ON CGI TUTORIALS:
http://www.cgi-installation-guide.com/


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