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From: Pat Asher <>
Subject: RE: [FP-ADVAN] Avtive Server Pages .ASP
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 13:28:34 -0400
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At 12:16 PM 8/2/2003, Steven Watson wrote:
>As far as I know, Rootsweb does not support any ASP services. I believe
>rootsweb is run on a Linux server using either Apache or Iplanet server, and
>doesn't support any Microsoft extensions such as Front Page Extensions or
>Active server Pages. Rootsweb does of course support client side scripting,
>java script, but the only Server side scripts it supports are a few server
>side includes. For the most part they have included a few tools, such as
>the rootsweb counter, mailmerge for forms, and the guest book. If you want
>to add a database, you can go here. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ I'm
>sure part of this is for security, but also for ease of use. I hope this
>answers a few questions. If I'm wrong about this, I'm sure someone else can
>point us in the right direction. :-)
>
>Steve

Steve,

You are correct. RootsWeb does not support any user generated server side
scripting such as ASP, PHP, CGI, etc. A poorly written CGI script can
crash the entire server ;)

RootsWeb allows all SSI commands except for the #exec command.

When you upload your database to UserDB, you are given the code for a
search box you can place on your own page, so your visitors can search the
db directly from there.

Alwyn provided an example of his interactive use of the userdb features:
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/Freepages-Help/2003-06/1056826984


Pat


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