It seems that everyone is offering a number of pre installed cgi scripts with hosting packages these days. Everyone seems to have give or take the same list, formmail, guestbook, hit counter, chat room, etc etc.

Would someone care to let me in on the secret. How are you all doing this?

ie What sort of pocess are you going through where scripts require certain changes to customise them eg file paths etc.

Does anyone have a good 'shopping list' / recommendations for the best packages for an host to install for their customers.

bring up old news..but has anyone got an answer for this? for I am looking for the same thing...

Hello :)

I can't speak for all cases, however many of these scripts come built in to whm/cpanel. How many you leave in and/or modify is your choice... you just edit them out if you don't want them.

Hope thats of some help :D

Hi,

We just use a perl script to copy in and modify certain tags that we put into the scripts to fill out the correct file paths/ domain details etc..etc..

Just add the requests for the scripts into a queue in your DB, and your perl script looks at it everyhour.

Set it as an hourly cron job and done :)