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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 other IIS5 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.

JMail 3.6 is 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 SiteOne.

CDONTS can also be used to run form-to-mail. An example of the source code can be found here.

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.

1. You do not need to call perl.exe - for example !/perl5/perl.exe. The response is automatic.
2. 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.