CGI Version of PHP help!

[newpoint]

I have just signed up for a hosting account, and then found out that they are using the CGI ver PHP. I was going to install osCommerce, but they say I will have to make all of the php files
executable, and install the path info at the top of all pages that are called by the browser. I am new to most of this, so how hard is this going to be for a newbie. Any help appreciated.

Thanks Jim

[theeper]

Shouldn't be any harder than adding a line like this to the top of each PHP script ....

#!/usr/bin/php

Then, you just need to set the execute bit on each of the scripts. If you are on *nix, you can do a command like this for the whole directory (and subdirectories) ...

chmod 700 -fR my_directory

or ...

chmod u+rwx -fR my_directory

This will give the file owners read, write and execute permissions on all scripts in the dir. You may need to set different perms depending on the user that actually calls the script.