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Tressa Posts: 304 From: Iowa USA Status: offline	cgi and .asp - 3/17/2001 20:40:00 Exactly what is involved to install a CGI script to your CGI bin on your host server (do you do it yourself or have to contact the host?) What does the extension .asp involved with?

Michael

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From: Trabuco Canyon, CA
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RE: cgi and .asp - 3/17/2001 17:32:00

Many hosting companies supply or otherwise offer cgi scripts for free and they can do a variety of things, most commonly perhaps being email handling. If you're using the FP email feature you won't need cgi for that. Your hosting company can add the files, or you can add the files yourself depending on your particular needs.

As for .asp (active server pages), that's sort of a whole different ball game. ASP is a fairly powerful bit of scripting, programming, whatever, that can allow you to handle all sorts of things, and carry information from page to page. This is true for things like login features, complex forms handling, shopping carts for ecommerce, etc. The Storefront add in for FP makes extensive use of .asp pages for that purpose. It allows a site to be much more dynamic than simple HTML alone could ever do.

One last note: practically any and all hosting companies will handle cgi, not all will handle asp.

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Tressa

Posts: 304
From: Iowa USA
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RE: cgi and .asp - 3/17/2001 23:18:00

Thanks for the reply, Michael.

Back to this question:
"Exactly what is involved to install a CGI script to your CGI bin on your host server (do you do it yourself or have to contact the host?)"

Do you ftp a cgi file (see what this newbie is getting at?)

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abbeyvet

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RE: cgi and .asp - 3/18/2001 20:02:00

There is a good tutorial on using and installing cgi scripts here: http://stylusinc.com/cgi_installation/help.htm

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JoeV

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From: Southern California, USA
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RE: cgi and .asp - 3/18/2001 20:03:00

Michael

>> The Storefront add in for FP makes extensive use of .asp pages for that purpose. <<

Where can I get information on this add in

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Michael Posts: 237 From: Trabuco Canyon, CA Status: offline	RE: cgi and .asp - 3/18/2001 17:09:00 Joe, you can find out about Storefront and www.storefront.net ------------------ <--Your information went data way --> (in reply to Tressa)