Frequently Asked Questions

As my cgi scripts have become more and more popular, many questions have begun flowing into my mailbox. Many of those can be answered very easily with this FAQ, and this way, you will get more complete answers and quicker response time. :-) If you have a question that you think should be here, let me know. The more I answer here, the less I have to repeat in my mail. There are general FAQs and scripts specific ones as well. If you have general questions, the general FAQ will fit you best, but the script specific questions should be looked for under that specific script.

General Frequently Asked Questions (15)
1. What does chmod xxx mean? What is chmod?
2. What platforms do your scripts run on?
3. Is there a charge for your scripts?
4. What does Server Error 403 "File Not Found" mean?
5. What does Server Error 500 "Malformed Header From Script" mean?
6. What does Server Error 501 "Cannot POST to non-script area..." mean?
7. What is "Internal Error: execve() failed" mean?
8. What is Unix? And what is A Unix/System Prompt?
9. What is a cgi-bin?
10. Do I need a cgi-bin to run these scripts?
11. What is #!/usr/bin/perl and do I need to modify it?
12. I had the compressed files mailed to me and now they won't uncompress?
13. Who created your graphics?
14. Who is your net provider and why do you have a worldwidemart.com address?
15. Can you make X script for me?
Script Specific Frequently Asked Questions:
- Guestbook (3)
  1. Everything seems to work, but the guestbook isn't written to?
  2. Everything works fine, but when I turn on the mail option, it errors out?
  3. Why doesn't the date show up on my page?
- Free For All Link Page (1)
  1. How can I remove multiple links from the file?
- WWWBoard (1)
  1. WWWAdmin Just Won't Work!
- Counter (1)
  1. How do I make the counter appear in my HTML document?
- WWWCount (Text Version) (0)
- Simple Search (2)
  1. How can I search recursively down directories?
  2. How many files can this program search through?
- FormMail (2)
  1. Everything works, but I don't recieve the data?
  2. Can I have multiple recipients?
- Random Image Displayer (0)
- Server Side Includes Random Image Displayer (2)
  1. What are Server Side Includes?
  2. Do I need Server Side Includes to run this?
- Random Link Generator (2)
  1. How do I format the link database?
  2. Are there any programs to help me create databases from common pages?
- Animation (5)
  1. What does the nph- on the front of a file mean?
  2. What does the line print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n"; do?
  3. How can I make this script work with JPEGs?
  4. What can I do if my images appear too fast?
  5. My images appear to skip or jump? How do I fix it?
- Countdown (0)
Script Archive Mailing List (4)
1. How do I subscribe/unsubscribe?
2. How do I send letters to the list?
3. Is there a Web Archive of the mailing list?
4. Is there a Digest version of the list?