UK2.net - Cant it do CGI or POST

[Unregistered]

UK2.net - Can it do CGI on its standard web space?

I think the answer is no, but there is no technical help what so ever.

It cant do a simple POST - this sucks - what can I do with this servive I pay about £5 a month.

Cant I build a search or forum. My site is http://www.futuremovies.co.uk

[Dave Swift]

..but UK2 does not allow any server side programming, including CGI, PERL, PHP, ASP and the rest.

[Unregistered]

it can have .pl on uk2.net - but non of the others I think. There is fook all information about UK2.net - only a sh*tty little help doc saying you can do .pl

so who is right - and what can be done ? - what about a link to a free service that provides CGI - anyone know any ?

[Unregistered]

No CGI directory can be made and any .cgi must change to .pl

Thats all I know

[kevin]

Hi unregistered,

sounds like they may allow PERL scripts to be run from any directory. Changing a CGI script to a PL script is easy, if you have a file named script.cgi, simply rename it to script.pl

Give it a try, upload a .pl file and set the permission (if necessary) using an FTP program to make the script executeable.

Regards,
Kevin

[Unregistered]

Thanks Kev

This is all confusing to me and I think I will stick to web graphics - its what I do best.

Idealy in the future I will move my www.futuremovies.co.uk to another host so I can set a dbs up - I cant do that with .pl I think ?
And most scripts reaquire POST.

I cant beleive UK2.net is the number one uk web host! - The only thing it does well in is speed. I think I will go to 1and1 at the end of the year.

Thanks for all your help
Johan

[Jason]

Hi Johan,

Nice looking site. Why not take the time to register on the forums, and join our community?

[Johan]

Yep - took some time, though its not obvious how to register or find the HTML forums again.

[whkoh]

Congratulations :D most people are unhappy about unregistered users requesting for help in the forums.

[mike91]

Hi just wizzed over your comments. Are you still stuck? If so email me back and I will allow you to point your form to my perl script. FOC. Let me know and I will mail you back the urls and stuff you need to do to your form. Thats what these forums are for. Us gorus to help guys like you!:-)

Cheers Mike