I am offering a free guestbook to my visitors, and now worried about changing my host company. Will it affect the script? Do I need to modify my script..knowing that my previous host is Verio and will change it to WebHosting.com?

Probably, did you set up the script yourself?

If your script is standard Perl, it should probably work. However, you may want to do a search for WebHosting.com, they don't have the best reputation.

If it's a simple guestbook script there shouldn't be any problems moving it.

I don't think scripts can only work on a machine.

Just configure them at the right way andthey should be working fine.

Most hosts use a cgi-bin. I know Verio uses something different - a cgi-local instead. If your script uses a path that defines cgi-local then you'll need to change that at least. Umm, location of perl (the first line in the script) may be different too. Location of sendmail if it uses that (probably does as a guestbook script).

Just little things, but knowing Verio like I do (have a client there), you probably will have to tweak a little.

Ditto for the webhosting.com comment too - poor reputation. Try someone listed here in this forum.

Greg Moore

I do thank you guys for your posts!
That was a great help from you...

Assuming you've installed a CGI script on your site, the most important issue is moving your data successfully. Modifying paths in the script is usually trivial.

If your on a UNIX box, make sure you tar up all of the data as well as the script files before you pull the plug on your current host.

That way, in theory, you should be able to untar on the new host, modify permissions and paths, and be off and running without skipping a beat.

Good luck,

Brian