[Xitami] smthttp: error on socket

[Pieter Hintjens]

"Michael Gibbons" <MGibbons@UxbridgeCollege.ac.uk> wrote:

> Sorry but i don't think you know what you are talking about, to be
> able to run a forum or chat room, using a 'flat file' the user need to
> have permission to write to a file where they messages are stored...

This is true in some cases, when Xitami is running under an account 
that has limited access rights.

There is a specific difference between Xitami and other web servers 
under Windows, namely that Xitami can run Perl, PHP, and other 
scripts without using the Windows registry.  Scripts do not need to 
'made executable', it's sufficient that they conform to the Unix 
standard of specifying the script interpreter in the first line.

Under Unix/Linux, CGI scripts must be marked as 'executable', which 
means using a chmod command, which must be done outside Xitami.  This 
means that Unix/Linux configurations are more secure, and more work.

If you want to set up a Xitami site to allow people to upload and run 
scripts, you have to ensure that (a) the web server account has the 
read/write accesses those scripts will need, and (b) that the various 
language interpreters you need (Perl, PHP,...) are installed and 
working.

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Pieter Hintjens
iMatix Corporation