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If you spend any time at all working with Perl and CGI, you're probably used to changing the permissions on your files. The good news is that Tripod's CGI
server takes care of that for you. (Besides, you wouldn't be able to change them even if you wanted to, because members don't have Telnet access.) Tripod's
CGI server just assumes that any file with a .pl or .cgi file extension has executable permissions.
The CGI server also directs your Perl scripts to the proper source for Perl on Tripod; normally you have to put a header at the top of your Perl scripts,
INTERMEDIATE
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>>Where your files are
To chmod or not to chmod
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Limitations
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One of the most significant ways in which Tripod differs from other CGI services is that all member-CGI scripts run on a special server named "cgi.tripod.com." While your
scripts are running, the CGI server doesn't contact any other server on Tripod. This means a few things:
- Since the CGI server won't contact any other servers on Tripod, any HTML file your script needs to access must be in your cgi-bin.
- The URL of any file located in your cgi-bin while your script is running is: http://cgi.tripod.com/your_membername/cgi-bin/filename.
- The absolute system location of files in your cgi-bin is the same as the root directory. While a CGI script is running, Tripod's CGI server considers your cgi-bin
to be the root directory. The system location of a file in your cgi-bin would be just the file name, since the CGI server doesn't see any of the rest of the directory
path. A file named "guestbook.html" in your cgi-bin would have "guestbook.html" as the system-path name.
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