Tripod CGI is NOT as bad as they say it is!

#1 31-Jan-2002, 02:05

I'm one of the older Tripod users (October 2001) that had thier account "blessed" with 50Megs. At the Ikonbioard Forums there is a rumor going around that Tripod ise using Perl 5.00. I wanted to see if this is true so i ran a Perl test script. I chnaged it to work and surprisingly that is not true, they are using 5.004_04, well according to an iB 3 test script! You can see it at http://rolyspets.tripod.com/cgi-bin/perl_test.cgi and according to that Tripod has DBI and MySQL modules so i'll try inmstalling iB 2.1.9. Here is the code of the script...

Code:

















use strict;
my $has_sendmail = 'Cannot Locate it';

my @send_mail = qw(
	                /usr/sbin/sendmail
	                /sbin/sendmail
	                /usr/bin/sendmail
	                /bin/sendmail
	                /usr/lib/sendmail
	                /lib/sendmail
	                /usr/slib/sendmail
	                /slib/sendmail
	                /usr/sendmail
	                /sendmail
	                sendmail
                    /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
                   );

eval { require 5 };
my $has_perl = $@ ? 'No' : 'Yes';

eval { require DB_File };
my $has_dbm  = $@ ? 'No' : 'Yes';

eval { require CGI };
my $has_cgi     = $@ ? 'No' : 'Yes';
my $cgi_version = $CGI::VERSION;

eval { require DBI };
my $has_dbi  = $@ ? 'No' : 'Yes';

my $perl_version = $];



print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

print &lt;&lt;_END_OF_TIME;

&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Ikonboard Perl Checker&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body bgcolor='#FFFFFF'&gt;
&lt;font face='Verdana, Arial' size='3' color='#000000'&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Ikonboard Perl Checker&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
The following results were returned
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Is Perl Version 5 or above installed? &lt;b&gt;$has_perl&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Version of Perl running on this server: &lt;b&gt;$perl_version&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Is the CGI.pm module installed?: &lt;b&gt;$has_cgi&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Version of CGI running on this server: &lt;b&gt;$cgi_version&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Is the DB_File installed on this server to allow DBM's to be used? &lt;b&gt;$has_dbm&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Is the DBI package installed, allowing the use of mySQL? &lt;b&gt;$has_dbi&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
That's it, you can run ikonboard if the Perl version is greater than 5!
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
_END_OF_TIME

exit;

save it as perl_test.cgi and upload it to your Tripod CGI-BIN in ASCII mode. Go to it at http://YOURNAME.tripod.com/cgi-bin/perl_test.cgi and it should output results simmilar to http://rolyspets.tripod.com/cgi-bin/perl_test.cgi

JdS · #2 31-Jan-2002, 02:44

i don't doubt they have all those software running but if u can even get a simple mail script to work on Tripod; it's already a MIRACLE

they set up the cgi-bin so limitedly, it's almost useless.

if u even manage to get iB to work (which I doubt very much) on Tripod, u will have problems wrestling with their TripodMail.pm.

#3 31-Jan-2002, 02:56

JdS, iB can be run without a mailer, if it doesn'w work i'll try Matt Wright's WWWBoard. A form to mail script? It doesn't even say how to use TripodMail.pm!

JdS · #4 31-Jan-2002, 05:13

but seriously, if u do get iB to work on Tripod then that would be great!

ACTUALLY, sending mail through Tripod is one of those things I simply wanted to solve but COULDN'T, despite my best efforts - so Roly, if u have it figured out will u let me know (about TripodMail.pm)?

conkermaniac · #5 02-Feb-2002, 20:40

What kinds of limitations do they put on a webpage? I never even knew they offered a CGI-bin! But since they do, I doubt it's very useful.

JdS · #6 03-Feb-2002, 00:05

i cannot be sure what they have done with their CGI-BIN but u'd have to be an expert in perl to figure it out...

i know that ur perl scripts have to be 'strict' for one... to send mail u have to use their TripodMail module.. plus some scripts that rely on 'referrer' does not work, like my banner exchange script..

plus, some popular script developers refuse to handle Tripod installations cause they say it's set up strangely (and these guys actually know perl - so i'll just take their word for it)...

nniehoff · #7 03-Feb-2002, 12:30

You might not have to use mail using iB, however I use iB 3 and if you don't have mail it won't work that well. On tripod they might have MySQL installed and running, but they will not give you permission to set up a DB and therefore MySQL is out. You might be able to install iB on tripod, but I doubt it will work very well.
Nick
I just put the installer out there for the heck of it, it doesn't work, check it out at http://nniehoff.tripod.com/cgi-bin/mb/installer.cgi

#8 12-Feb-2002, 23:10

You cannot have subdirs in your CGI-BIN anymore.

nniehoff · #9 13-Feb-2002, 06:58

When I put the file there, it did work, however it had about a thousand errors, and since tripod is being little jerks about it, I guess you'll just have to believe me that it did not work.
However, I have moved the file, It can be viewed here.
Nick

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