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gthorley
March 15th, 2001, 12:21
Can someone enlighten me on these extensions. I used a script at my last host for a guestbook and it had .pl extension. This wouldn't work with my current host but when I switched to the .cgi extension it did. The scripts were identical. I have a counter that uses an ssi call and it doesn't seem to want to work with either extension. The only problem I can think of here is that ssi haven't been enabled for my domain. I have e-mailed my host to ask for that to be checked.

Before anyone suggests it I double checked asci upload and chmod to 755.

Canuckkev
March 15th, 2001, 17:46
Some hosts don't allow .pl, some don't allow .cgi . Most cgi hosts allow both extensions. So just rename the scripts and should work.

Niaad
March 18th, 2001, 15:44
For the SSI...make sure your page has a .shtml extension... :)