What is the root for cgi-bin in www terms? Plz reply!

[Anvilman]

Okay, here's the deal
My domain is filteredlife.com, but I need to know what the root directory location is for cgi-bin... ie) http://mercury.powweb.com/~filteredlife/ is the root to my site, now where is the location of the cgi-bin is comparison to that?

[Starr]

If your account is over 30 days old, you can only access your files using a FQDN.

For those users that do use the full server path to serve files or web pages, you will need to change this to your FQDN ASAP as we will be disabling this service in the next 30 days.

[Anvilman]

what the heck is FSDN?

[Anvilman]

err, FQDN

[fcsnc]

HEY! I need to know what you mean by that!!!

I quote from my setup letter, which is only a few weeks old:
--------------- begin quote ---------------
Information for script users:


Your full "server path":
/www/f/fcsnc/ <-- Your home directory
/www/f/fcsnc/htdocs/ <-- Your "Document Root" directory
(where all web content must go).
/www/f/fcsnc/cgi-bin/ <-- Your non-browsable script directory.


Other paths you will need to know:
Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Date: /usr/bin/date
Sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
---------------- end quote ----------------

NONE ... repeat NONE of these paths are Fully Qualified Domain Names !!

I need immediate information on how I am supposed to change all this code in my scripts. Is this another "enhancement?"

Originally posted by starr
If your account is over 30 days old, you can only access your files using a FQDN.

For those users that do use the full server path to serve files or web pages, you will need to change this to your FQDN ASAP as we will be disabling this service in the next 30 days.

[Starr]

FQDN = Fully Qualified Domain Name

I.e.: powweb.com is a FQDN. powweb.com/~user is not.

You’re confusing something accessed from the web and an internal call. You can still use your full server path for your scripts.

[Zippo]

I think what they are saying is:

Use your registered dommainname e.g.

www.filteredlife.net

Then the path to your cgi-bin is then just:

http://www.filteredlife.net/cgi-bin

or use it relative from root htdocs
./cgi-bin

Zippo

[Jeff321]

Exactly. They want you to use your domain name, not planet.powweb.com in your HTML & scripts.

Starr, did I understand that right? You will be disabling file access via the planet.powweb.com/~username for everybody? Just a suggestion, you might want to notify people of that before you do it :)

[Starr]

Correct, we will be disabling host.powweb.com/~username access for all.

As for notifying people, it states quite clearly in your setup email that the "temporary" URL is good for 30 days.

We will send out an email just in case though. ;)

[Jeff321]

Alright, thanks, just checking :)