Buliten Board Question

[Gogeta_44]

I used to run a webserver and mailserver until my isp made me stop and I had to move to a 10mb remote host with no cgi, php, or perl. I would like to run some type of free Buliten Board software for my site that can be uploaded to the host and dosent require php, perl or cgi's. The site is darkstar44.webhop.net.
Thanks!

[bwkaz]

There are no bulletin board packages that can be run without CGI.

They all require CGI, because CGI's the only thing that you can use to do any processing on the server (for example, processing like taking your members' posts and inserting them into a database so that you can pull them out later when somebody else wants to read them).

Maybe you could move to a less fascist ISP, or at least a more full-featured web host?

[tuxnewb]

you can do a bb with php but you said that you dont have php either. Im sure that you could use javascript to make a shoutbox type of thing.

:)

[EnigmaOne]

Move to 0catch.com and pay the inexpensive fee for no ads, increased space, and cgi/bin access.

Install a proper bb/mb app.

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by tuxnewb
you can do a bb with php But isn't PHP CGI? It executes code on the server, and the output of that code gets sent to the browser. That's pretty much the definition of CGI -- it's not a separate language, merely a way to dynamically generate web pages...

Im sure that you could use javascript to make a shoutbox type of thing. I'm not at all familiar with shoutbox, but if it's Javascript, then it's client only. And there's no way for the server to store anything produced by the clients (i.e. the forum posts). ;)

[tuxnewb]

yeah i guess you are right. I though cgi was a type of scripting guess i was wrong....

[Syngin]

Hmm, I always assumed that languages like Perl (and maybe Python?) were CGI but not PHP. Its more of a web language isn't it? You don't have to chmod php pages to my knowledge?