Creating a cgi bin

[davidfromvision]

Hi
We are developing a new web site and obviously need a cgi bin on it so that we can use actinic, in the past we have had these created for us (usually by the actinic support staff over the phone :) )However we would like to know how to do this for ourselves. Could some body explain how to go about setting up a cgi bin.

Many thanks

David

[pinbrook]

you will need to FTP to your server space, what FTP package do you have?

[davidfromvision]

I have Bullet proof and Dream Weaver.

[Nadeem]

Hi there

Sorry, but not heard of Bullet Proof, and never used Dreamweaver for FTP. What what you will need to do, is to FTP to your site. When you connect to your server, you will see some folder, simply find the folder where your html pages will go, and create a new folder called "CGI-BIN".
Now rightclick on this folder and you could see a function for "CHMOD" or "UNIX COMMAND CHMOD". Click on it, and you will get a permission box.
Here for the permission, type in 755 or read,write,execute,read,execute,read,execute.

Kind Regards

[davidfromvision]

WOW thanks. I cant believe it was that simple. I thought there was going to be some hardcore programing involved/ :) thank you so much.