[ale] creating web pages on remote servers

[J.M. Taylor]

Drew,

My experience has been that perl is more commonly found on (*nix) web
servers than php.  Actually writing a file, I *think* perl would be more
likely to be able to do that too, but no matter what you do it'll take
some setup.

I don't know about it being common for servers to let scripts write to a
file. You're running that script as the web user, and it just totally
depends on how the admin on the other machine has set up permissions, web
user, etc.  What we always did was touch an empty file outside the
web-accessible structure and chown to the web user so the script (perl or
php) could write to it.

HTH
jenn

> My question goes to web administrators:
> Would Perl (cgi-bin) or .php be more likely to have FILE WRITING ability
> on  hosting accounts around the world? Would it be common for servers to
> be set  up so that a .php/perl script could write to a file?



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