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Cold Fusion
ASPUpload & XUpload
Perl CGI
Server Side Includes

Active Server Pages

There's nothing specific to our server in the way in which you use Active Server Pages. It's just a matter of creating the files and sending them up to the server. All accounts have Active Server Pages enabled.

Also, make sure to check the The "Best" ASP Resource in the World (that's their title). They have a good collection of step-by-step tutorials on a number of introductory and advanced topics.

15 Seconds has regular articles on advanced scripting techniques, focusing on ASP and related items.

Cold Fusion

ColdFusion is included in the Win Pro, Win Commerce & Win Ultra accounts and is available to other account types as an additional service.

If you haven't yet, check out the Macromedia products page which includes links to their developer resources, including the full online documentation for Cold Fusion and some great resources that are active and prove quite handy in getting a jump on things.

We have installed a wide selection of Custom Tags for use in your Cold Fusion pages.

ASPUpload & XUpload

• To see a sample, visit our sample page

• For usage details, see the AspUpload Manual

• For the complete list of properties and methods, see ObjectReference

Please note that as a security precuation, the following features of ASPUpload are disabled on our servers: ACL, Directory Listing, File Copy, Register Server, and Remove Directory.

Perl CGI

Perl is included in all Windows 2003 accounts.

All perl scripts must have a ".pl" extension. Eg. perlscript.pl will work where perlscript.cgi will not.

CGI.pm

This perl 5 library uses objects to create Web fill-out forms on the fly and to parse their contents. It provides a simple interface for parsing and interpreting query strings passed to CGI scripts. However, it also offers a rich set of functions for creating fill-out forms. Instead of remembering the syntax for HTML form elements, you just make a series of perl function calls. An important fringe benefit of this is that the value of the previous query is used to initialize the form, so that the state of the form is preserved from invocation to invocation. [More...]

There are some basic style considerations to be made when creating CGI scripts in Perl to run on Windows. Please check the PerlIIS homepages first if you are having problems receiving the proper behavior from your scripts.

Server Side Includes

SSI is included in all our Windows 2003 account types. Due to the method in which SSI is coded into Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) however, no EXEC includes are allowed and will generate errors.

All SSI pages must end with the extension ".shtml", ".shtm", or ".stm" in order to be handled correctly.

If you're in need of more information, there is a Server Side Tutorial we've found that may be a good place to start learning more about them. This tutorial does include information on exec style SSI's as it's about SSI in general, and not aimed at Windows 2003 specifically.