In
the CGI Center you will find pre-installed CGI scripts for your site. If
you have some programming knowledge you might want to download some of
the third-party Perl scripts that are available in the Free
Downloads section of our website. If you install your own scripts please
refer to the CGI Scripts menu of our Web Hosting Support section for general
script installation instructions and server paths.
The
following scripts are pre-installed and available on the CGI Center:
CGI
Wrapper:
The
CGI Wrapper is a gateway program that allows users to run CGI scripts without
compromising the security of the web server. The CGI Wrapper allows the
scripts to run with the permissions of the user who owns the script. It
is configured to run user scripts which are located in the /public_html/cgi-bin/
directory. You can enable the CGI Wrapper by clicking on this feature.
Random
HTML Generator:
The
Random HTML Generator randomly generates text on your web page. It picks
an HTML string out of a list and inserts it in an SSI (Server Side Includes)
enabled web page. You page needs to have an .shtml extension for this feature
to work. To setup the Random HTML Generator simply click on it and input
the text that you wish to have generated randomly.
Guest
Book:
The
Guest Book is a simple guest book generator. To setup this feature click
on it and then copy and paste the code generated into your page.
Counter:
This
feature allows you to setup a counter, a clock, or a date box for a page
on your website. You need to generate the code for each script that you
want to use. To setup this feature select the radio button for the specific
script that you want to generate, select options and click on Make HTML,
then simply copy and paste the code provided into your web page.
Clock:
This
utility will create a real time java clock for your site. Very similar
to the clock available inside the counter option. To setup this feature
select the options that you want and click Save to generate the
HTML code to insert into your pages.
Countdown:
This
will create a countdown box that counts down to a specified date. To setup
the Countdown enter the date that you would like to count down to and click
on Make HTML to generate the HTML code to insert into your pages.
CGI
Email:
CGI
Email is a CGI program written in C for Unix. It takes the input of an
HTML form and converts it to an email format defined by the author of the
form. By doing this the resulting email messages are easy to sort through.
Using CGI Email requires more work than using Forms to Email programs such
as FormMail. However, users with no programming experience can follow the
simple step-by-step instructions in the CGI Email user guide. To enable
this feature, simply click on it, you will then find instructions for setting
it up.
FormMail
Clone:
FormMail
Clone is a clone of Matt Wright's FormMail.cgi under a less restrictive
license. It should behave almost exactly as FormMail.cgi, however, with
it you are not able to customize the script at all and the output of your
form results arrive in alphabetical order. To enable the FormMail Clone
just click on it. The path to use in your forms is: http://yourdomain.com/cgi-sys/FormMail.cgi.
Entropy
Search:
This
is a simple search engine that will index the pages within your domain.
To setup the Entropy Search click on Setup Search Engine and you
will be provided with the HTML code that you will need to insert in your
pages where you want the search box to appear. Once you have entered the
code into your pages and have uploaded them to your account, revisit this
area and click on Rebuild Search Index to complete the installation.
Entropy
Banner:
Entropy
Banner is a simple random banner generator. You can use Entropy Banner
to display random banners on your web pages. To setup this feature click
on it, copy and paste the code into the pages where you would like to show
the banners. To add banners, click on Add Banners. You can also
modify the Rotation of the banners by clicking on Modify Rotation.
NOTE:
You must name your pages that contain the code for your banner rotation
with the extension .shtml in order for this feature to work.
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