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electroJerm · Jan 4, 2002, 05:49 AM

Hi everyone...

I'm trying to put together a forum using the freely available Ikonboard CGI/perl stuff (www.ikonboard.com). My ISP won't run perl, so that leaves me with a few other options:

Tripod/Angelfire: will run CGI/perl stuff, but won't let me change the permissions on the files via FTP (I tried Transmit AND Interarchy and both gave me errors that "the command: Site is not permitted," whatever that is.

Geocities: won't run CGI/perl stuff

Freeservers: won't let you FTP without buying a "gold" account, which means I can't set the whole thing up.

AOL Hometown: Their FTP is as screwed up back when I tried it in 1997. After 4 years, you'd think they'd improve it, but I guess not.

So, anyone have any solutions? Any free services that I forgot about? Any tips?

Amorya · Jan 4, 2002, 07:03 PM

Originally posted by electroJerm:
<STRONG>Hi everyone...

I'm trying to put together a forum using the freely available Ikonboard CGI/perl stuff (www.ikonboard.com). My ISP won't run perl, so that leaves me with a few other options:

Tripod/Angelfire: will run CGI/perl stuff, but won't let me change the permissions on the files via FTP (I tried Transmit AND Interarchy and both gave me errors that "the command: Site is not permitted," whatever that is.

Geocities: won't run CGI/perl stuff

Freeservers: won't let you FTP without buying a "gold" account, which means I can't set the whole thing up.

AOL Hometown: Their FTP is as screwed up back when I tried it in 1997. After 4 years, you'd think they'd improve it, but I guess not.

So, anyone have any solutions? Any free services that I forgot about? Any tips?</STRONG>

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You get PHP and SQL. I'm not sure if you get Perl, as I'm not interested in it, but check it out anyway.

Amorya