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CCC/AvvantaMail
The Communications Control Center (CCC) enables you to read your email from any standard internet connection, manage your account, setup autoresponders, control your email filters, and much, much more. It can be accessed from www.avvantamail.com.
CGI System Information
A partial listing of CGI specific configuration and support information is provided below to assist you with determining if your CGI will work on a Avvanta web server. Not all information is included below. Many times the easiest way to determine if your CGI will work is to install it.

Perl Specific Information
  1. Current version of perl: v5.6.1
  2. Perl Location: /usr/bin/perl
  3. Current version of CGI.pm: 2.752
  4. Current version of DB_File.pm: 1.75
  5. Perl MySQL support is not available.

PHP Specific Information
  1. Current version of PHP: 4.1.2
  2. PHP MySQL Support is available: 4.1.12-standard
  3. PHP Safe Mode is on.
  4. Supported extensions: php,phtml,php3
  5. Maximum http-uploaded file size: 2Mb
  6. XML Support via Expat enabled: 1.95.1
  7. DOM/XML Support enabled: libxml 2.4.10
  8. Regex Library: system
  9. PCRE Support enabled: 3.4
  10. Session support enabled.
  11. POSIX Version: 1.33.2.1

Generic CGI Information
  1. Sendmail location: /usr/sbin/sendmail
  2. Perl CGIs must be named with the .cgi extension. The .pl extension will not work.
  3. Your CGIs can work from any directory with one exception. Do not create or attempt to use a cgi-bin directory. This name is reserved for system-wide CGIs and the server will ignore yours if you attempt to create one.

Security Considerations
  1. No directory in the path to a perl CGI can be world or group writable. For example, if the path to your example CGI is $HOME/web_docs/mycgis/example.cgi, then the mycgis directory cannot be world or group writable, the web_docs directory cannot be group or world writable, and your $HOME directory cannot be group or world writable. If in doubt, chmod 755 the directories leading up to your CGI. The chmod command can be issued with most FTP clients.
  2. Perl CGIs on our system do not run with generic privileges. Perl CGIs run with permissions identical to the "owner" of the CGI file - "you" in most cases. This means your files and directories do not need to be world writable to allow your CGI to create or modify those files or folders. If your CGI documentation recommends a directory or file be world writable you do not need to do this and as noted above it may prevent your CGI from working in the first place.