Access to a web server that supports
cgi and allows user to run binary cgi scripts. POD is a binary cgi script so it needs a web server
that supports cgi to run. Please note that some servers allow user to
run perl scripts or other text-based scripts like asp, jsp or php. That
is different than binary scripts. Please contact your server
administrator to make sure that they do allow binary/compiled scripts to
run. Usually if you see your web hosting company advertise that they
allow cgi/perl scripts, that means likely they allow you to run binary scripts
because here the cgi usually means the compiled scripts like POD.
One simple way (actually, oversimplified way) to see if POD
can run on your web server is to place fldb.exe in POD
package into your server's cgi-bin directory, then type
http://www.myserver.com/cgi-bin/fldb.exe?act=version
into your web browser. Assuming that POD has the URL as
www.myserver.com/cgi-bin/fldb.exe, the above URL will
return the version number for your copy of POD. If you see a
version number displayed, then POD will run for you for sure, provided that
you set it up right later. If you do not see a
version number, but instead you see an error message like 405, 500,
that does not necessarily mean POD will not run for you. It could be that your
cgi-bin directory was not set up correctly to run any script, etc. In such case, please contact
your server administrator to 1. determine if running binary script in your cgi-bin directory is
allowed. 2. if binary script is allowed, try to work with them to
solve the problem(s). Potential causes of problem are listed in
Problems & Solutions
section.