Where to place your CGI scripts: Although there is nothing
dangerous about placing cgi scripts in random directories
throughout your site, it's best if you keep them in their own
little home known as the cgi-bin. This minimizes security risks
and allows you to maintain your cgi programs from one directory.
The path to Perl: One of the first things you must do when
configuring a script, is set the correct path to the Perl
interpreter, which is the engine responsible for processing the
script. The path to Perl on our servers is: #!/usr/bin/perl The
path to Sendmail: Some programs such as the ones, which send
email will need to know where the Sendmail program resides on
the server. The script will typically have a setting like this:
$mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; and will want you to set it
appropriately. Sendmail on our servers can be found here:
/usr/sbin/sendmail or /usr/lib/sendmail. Setting directories
within your cgi scripts: When you configure a cgi script for
"any" server, it may ask you to set variab