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December 11, 2004
GoDaddy Hosting
A gentleman contacted me on Friday about installing a simple CGI script on his hosting account at godaddy.com. He claimed the fellow he initially contacted didn't seem to be getting anything done.
There seems to be some problems with these hosting accounts...
After doing a number of tests and then running a script that would output the CGI variables here is the result:
SCRIPT_NAME -> /cgi-bin/sbox/env.cgi
SCRIPT_URI -> http://www.xxx.com/cgi/env.cgi
SCRIPT_FILENAME -> /html/cgi/env.cgi
PATH_TRANSLATED -> /home/content/x/x/x/xxx/html/env.cgi
(The domain name has been x'ed out to protect the owners privacy)
The problem: 4 paths to one file.
Any scripts that need to rely on server paths will likely fail.
My advice to anyone hosted there who needs to install scripts is to move your site to a more professional hosting account.
Posted by Steve MacLellan at December 11, 2004 07:34 PM
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