What is the path to perl, sendmail, etc? What is the full path to my home directory? Will my scripts work that I transferred from my previous host? When I run my scripts I receive an 'Internal Server Error'. Why? My scripts won't run, they did with my previous host. Why? How do I make my scripts 'executable'? Is there a debugger available for my scripts? What is the path to perl, sendmail, etc? The path to perl is /usr/bin/perl The path to sendmail is /usr/sbin/sendmail The path to date is /bin/date What is the full path to my home directory? The document root for a virtual sites' web page content is: /home/public_html/sitename/web For example, www.mattcas.com would have a document root of /home/public_html/www.mattcas.com/web Only the site administrator can upload to this directory. Web content in this directory is associated with the URL http://sitename/. For example, a file saved as: /home/sites/sitename/web/testdir/test.html would be accessed via the URL: http://sitename/testdir/test.html Will my scripts work that I transferred from my previous host? Most scripts require at the very least some changes. With well written scripts, any changes that are machine specific will be well documented within the script. Most scripts will require changing the absolute path references as listed above. When I run my scripts I receive an 'Internal Server Error'. Why? Internal Server Errors or Misconfiguration Errors are general errors. If you are receiving these errors than anything could be wrong. To narrow the problem down, telnet to the server and run your script from the command line. If your scripts run without errors from the command line then your file and/or directory permissions are the most likely cause. My scripts won't run, they did with my previous host. Why?? Unlike most servers, the Unix server usually allows scripts to be run from any directory. To allow this, the server must utilize stricter security. Generally if a script runs on another server but fails to run now, it is because the file permissions are not set correctly. How do I make my scripts 'executable'?? 1. Telnet to the server. If you are using Windows, click on Start, then Run. In the popup window type 'telnet yourdomain.com'. Login using your username/password. 2. Change directories by typing 'cd directory-name'. Replace 'directory-name' with the name of your directory. 3. Generally most executable scripts are set to 755, so type 'chmod 755 script-name.cgi' . Replace 'script-name.cgi' with the name of the script file. 4 Log out of the server by typing 'logout' Is there a debugger available for my scripts? ? Yes. To use the debugger your file names must end with '.cgid' or '.pld'.