Scripting
Your hosting account is able to run
CGI and ASP. SiteOne does not support scripts installed by
the client, unless there is a problem with a server's normal configuration.
ASP
ASP was developed at Microsoft for
use with their IIS web server package. ASP is a powerful tool for
creating dynamic content, and for connecting to ODBC databases.
Documents that have the .asp extension will be processed as an ASP
document.
ASP can connect to databases, dynamically format
the page, execute complex logic statements, and much more. SiteOne
supports the use of VBScript, JavaScript, PerlScript, and PythonScript
within Active Server Pages with VBScript set as the default scripting
language.
Personal Web Server
To run ASP pages locally on your PC you must have
Personal Web Server or other IIS5/6 server software installed.
Windows 95/98/ME comes with PWS and can be found
on the CD-ROM: x :\add-ons\pws\setup.exe
PWS is only shipped with the professional versions
of Windows 2000 and XP.
Email Objects
CDONTS and JMail 3.7 are installed on the server
for you to run ASP driven form-to-mail scripts. This replaces the
use of formmail.pl which cannot be run on Windows 2000 servers.
You can download JMail to use locally on you PC
at http://tech.dimac.net/
along with full documentation and examples (however you must have
Personal Web Server installed or the
server components provied with Windows 2000 or XP).
When configuring your JMail script:
set the server address to JMail.ServerAddress = "smtp.yourdomainname.co.uk"
where your domain is the domain hosted by SO Hosts.
CDONTS can also be used to run form-to-mail.
An example of the source code can be found here.
ASP Upload
The ASP Upload ASP component is installed
on our servers allowing you the abilty to upload files from a web
browser. Full information about this component can be found at http://www.aspupload.com/
A list of ASP related links can be
found on our resources
page.
ODBC
You are able to connect to the following
using ODBC:
Access 2000
DBase
Excel
Paradox
Text
Visual FoxPro
MSSQL (extra charges apply)
These can be completed using your Personal
Control Panel.
CGI
Your hosting account is configured
to use Active State Perl. Full documentation for Active State Perl
can be found at http://www.activestate.com.
There are two key elements that are
different when you are running CGI under Windows 2000.
- You do not need to call perl.exe - for example
!/perl5/perl.exe. The response is automatic.
- Sendmail.pl does not run on Windows 2000. The
alternative would be to use JMail or CDONTS (see above).
Perl files need to have the extension .pl before
they will run on the server. They also need to be placed into your
cgi-bin directory.
If you have any queries please contact
us at support@sohosts.com
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