Need CGI Access - Dont Want Tripod etc. Any ideas?

[ChrisMacPherson]

'Lo
I just keep joining more and more threads, it's going to take me ages to check out the new posts.

CGI- I want to use a CGI script(Perl) as a mailform at the moment and when I know more, for a search engine. I am downloading activePerl as I type. I have a tripod account, but do not like advertising, so what I'm asking is...

Where can I get some space on a server, that will let me use CGI, WITHOUT pop-upads(or embedded!) or am I completely wrong.

I have a website based at technomusic.org, so if I post my form contents to a mailform script at Tripod, then does the return page make a pop-up appear? Or is this not possible, because of some genious programmer who wont let me do it?

If you can understand my newbie antics, AND reply, then praise goes out to you and you and you and you and you!!(sorry-radiation)

P.S I'm running win95, I take this shouldn't matter?

 

[vcherubini]

I just recently signed up with a site called

http://www.f2s.com

and they have both CGI and PHP access, along with 20 megs of space for free. It is really nice. I like the service.

Your address would be

http://www.youraddress.f2s.com,

so its to bad.

Hope this helps.

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[tanderso]

I would suggest shelling out between $10 and $30 per month for a very good host. You spend more at Burger King. Does everything have to be free? I'll let you in on something... cheap is not always better.

Sincerely,
Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.

http://www.oac-design.com

 

[drs9222]

f2s was great but they're no longer free. Has anyone found a decent replaecment? (i.e. free/addless)

 

[goBoating]

Yes. There is a very good replacement. If you are looking for a place to develop/test cgi/php apps, then go to

http://www.apache.org

.

Download the port for your OS, install it and do any developemnt you want w/o worrying about someone else hosting your stuff.

In about the same amount of time it takes to work out the details of dealing with a hosting company you can setup your own instance of apache/perl/php and develop as long as
you like w/o tying up the phone line.

When you get it working, you not only have a web server for free, you have also gained valuable knowledge about apache, which is ubiquitous on the web.

'just my .02 'hope this helps

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[Haunter]

I have done the same on my machine and I find it to be the best solution. I have gotten the apache workstation for delvelpment to work on winXP, win98, win2000 and Linux workstations. If you need assistance in getting them up let me know.

ekhaunter@hotmail.com