All of our UK web hosting plans support CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts which may be used to process form information, deliver dynamically created web pages and perform many other tasks to help make your site more interactive.
Example applications include hit counters, e-mailing of form responses, guest books, discussion forums, site searches and bulletin boards.
In theory, CGI scripts can be written in almost any programming language, but they are usually written in Perl.
The Efficient Hosting servers support CGI scripts written in Perl, Python, C, PHP and the common Linux shells.
Perl, Python, PHP and Linux shell scripts are interpreted live by the server and need only be uploaded in order to work (with execute permission for Perl, Python and shell scripts), but any programs written in C must first be compiled before they can be run on the server.
You can write your own script(s) or install one or more of the thousands of ready written scripts which are available free of charge from resources such as The CGI Resource Index and HotScripts.com.
Please see the CGI section of our Online Manual for help with installing and troubleshooting CGI scripts.
We have also made a large number of preinstalled scripts available, including form to e-mail (formmail), visitor counter, date and/or time display, guest book, countdown, banner management, random page content generation and internal site search engine scripts. |
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