the_joseph•1mo agoProlific Poster

Tried to run a 90s guestbook script on my new server and it broke everything

I dug up the old Perl code for a guestbook I made in 1997, uploaded it to my VPS, and the whole site went down for 3 hours because it used a deprecated system call. Spent the whole afternoon fixing permissions and file paths. Anyone know a good modern host that actually handles these old CGI scripts without a fight?

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the_miles1mo ago

Yeah, that "deprecated system call" thing is a killer. I ended up just running the old script on a cheap shared host that still has the old Perl modules. DreamHost actually worked for me without much fuss.

daniel_martinez841mo ago

Classic @the_miles, finding the one host that hasn't updated since 2005. Sometimes the real solution is just avoiding the problem entirely, I guess.