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-[02] WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT DNS RECORD TYPES?
+[02] IS PHP4, ASP, PERL, SSI, CGI AVAILABLE HERE?
+     YES!
-     This is a pretty quick and basic description.  The most
+     This is probably FAQ #1 and its annoying as hell to have to
-     important records are the A, MX and CNAME.  You can probably
+     answer it over and over and over and over and over again.
-     figure out how the DNS database entry works.
+     We use suEXEC and suPHP!  What this means is that the tools
+     you have access to under your SDF membership are the tools
+     you can use in your website scripting.
-     SOA    Start Of Authority.  Is probably the most complicated
+     To make use of SSI, be sure to use .shtml as your filename
-            portion of the DNS database to understand.  SDF takes
+     extension.
-            care of this record for you.
-     A      Address record.  The IP address for a host or domain.
+     Need to see php4 options?  Create a file called 'test.php'
+     in your webdirectory, and put the following inside:
-     MX     Mail Exchanger.  The host who handles mail for your
-            domain/hosts.  There is a numeric value before the
-            MX host to specify preference (typically 75 for
+     How about CGI?
-            a primary, and 100 for a secondary)
+     If you know how to ask the question, you better know how to
+     make use of the facilities.  Giving a detailed tutorial is
+     beyond the scope of this FAQ, however, very simple examples
+     may show up here. For instance:
-     CNAME  Canonical Name - an equivilent host name.
+     If you want to create a simple CGI, you don't need to use
+     PERL, you can do it the UNIX way in ksh!  (PS, PERL != CGI)
-     A typical database (without the SOA) might look like this:
+     #!/bin/ksh
+     #
+     # My silly.cgi
+     #
+     echo Content-type: text/html
+     echo
+     echo ""
+     echo "
+my silly hello world.
+"
-     $ORIGIN mydomain.org.
+     To create powerful CGIs using LISP, you can use OpenLISP on
+     SDF by simply:
-     foo	IN	A	10.0.0.1
+     #!/usr/pkg/uxlisp/uxlisp -quiet
-		IN	MX	75   foo.mydomain.org.
+     ;
-		IN	MX	100  mail.anotherhost.org.
+     ; My powerful.cgi
-     bar	IN	CNAME	foo.mydomain.org.
+     ;
+     (print "Content-type: text/html")
+     (print)
+     (print "")
+     (print "
+my powerful hello world.
+")
-     Notice that the "." at the end of text is of importance.
+     For more information and a tutorial on using LISP on SDF
-     the $ORIGIN is a tag in the database, which tells the nameserver
+     for the web, see http://lisp-p.org
-     that all information following needs to have 'mydomain.org.'
-     appended to the initial tag (id est, foo.mydomain.org. instead
-     of just 'foo').
-     In the above example, host 'foo' has an address of 10.0.0.1 and
+     While we don't directly support 'ASP' you can convert any
-     its favourite mail exchanger is itself.  In the event that it
+     ASP format file to a PHP file using 'asp2php'
-     is unavailable, its second favourite mail exchanger is
-     'mail.anotherhost.org' which lives outside of this database.
+     ------------------------------------------------------------
-     Host 'bar' in basically just an equivilent name for 'foo' .. although
+     Yes, use the extension '.cgi' for a script to be executed by
-     you could of just had another A and MX records for 'bar', this is
+     the webserver.  You can run 'mkhomepg -p' to set proper file
-     the most efficient and clean way to build your database.
+     permissions after you have uploaded or created new files. Also,
+     you don't need a 'cgi-bin' or whatever like some sites have.
+     Its not necessary!  CGIs can be run from any directory within
+     your web directory.
+     If you have read this answer and its of no help, rather than
+     pestering all the other users, how about going off and reading
+     a book on PHP, PYTHON, LISP .. whatever ..
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