Does the school alloted webspace let you use perl, cgi, or php?
Nope, nadda and noway! Sorry.
Ya, that is what I thought. Although, I do see perl on the server. Anyone know of a way to use it with your webspace?
If you are a CS student, you should have an account on solar.cs.siue.edu (http://solar.cs.siue.edu). I know this server has PHP and Perl installed, perhaps even Python. Check out this area (http://caos.siue.edu/modules/wffaq/index.php?op=cat&c=2) of the CS Knowledge Base to find out how to get access.
P.S. The PHP version is kind of outdated, but it is better than nothing! :D
http://solar.cs.siue.edu/~motykowp/info.php
Yeah, solar.cs has a ton of outdated stuff on it.
If you want to use PHP, I suggest using home.cs. It's a Debian system running under the -testing (sarge) release.
Debian kind of works like this...
-stable is uber-stable, resulting in a system of higher grade than most other distributions' enterprise-grade
-testing is basically the same as other distros' enterprise-grade
-unstable is usable, but it's definately geared towards Debian developers to develop the OS
If you are into learning Linux, I HIGHLY recommend trying this distribution out. It's gaining importance in netcraft surveys, and several recent distributions are modelled directly after it: Xandros, Lycoris, DamnSmallLinux, and several others. I'd be happy to list all the reasons I like this, but it'd be one long post.
Let's just say that the APT tools are a work of art, and apt-get.org offers about 143,000 extra packages to use with apt-get.
If php is available on home.cs, how do I go about getting webspace?
Just create a public_html directory in your home directory.
$ cd
$ mkdir public_html
In your web browser go to http://home.cs.siue.edu/~