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2 **scripts.mit.edu** is a hosting service for the MIT community that
3 provides several popular web packages such as **MediaWiki** and
4 **WordPress**, as well as **CGI script**, **MySQL**, **cron**, and
5 **procmail** hosting. The service is
6 **free to any Athena account holder** or group locker. It has over
7 3000 registered user accounts, and is used by a number of student
8 organizations and academic groups at MIT.
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10 The scripts.mit.edu service is provided by the
11 [Student Information Processing Board](http://sipb.mit.edu/)
12 (SIPB), MIT’s volunteer student group dedicated to computing. It is
13 neither run nor supported by [IS&T](http://ist.mit.edu/), and we
14 make no guarantees about
15 [uptime or support](/faq/136/what-level-of-support-does-scriptsmitedu-provide).
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17 We encourage scripts.mit.edu users to subscribe to our
18 [announcement mailing list](https://mailman.mit.edu:444/mailman/listinfo/scripts-announce).
19
20 ### [Quick-Start Installers](http://scripts.mit.edu/start/)
21
22 You can easily [install](http://scripts.mit.edu/start/) a new wiki,
23 blog, photo gallery, forum, CMS, guestbook, or Trac by simply
24 running two commands at an Athena prompt:
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26 > athena% **add scripts**  
27 > athena% **scripts**
28
29 ### [Web Script Service](http://scripts.mit.edu/web/)
30
31 Athena users and group lockers can serve CGI scripts (Perl, PHP,
32 Python, Ruby, Scheme, etc.) on the web using the
33 [scripts.mit.edu hosting service](http://scripts.mit.edu/web/).
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35 ### [MySQL Service](http://sql.mit.edu/)
36
37 This service provides [MySQL](http://dev.mysql.com/doc) databases
38 to Athena users and group lockers. SQL commands can be issued from
39 any host, client, and/or script of your choice; simply connect to
40 the [MySQL server at sql.mit.edu](http://sql.mit.edu/) using your
41 MySQL username and password.
42
43 ### [Mail Script Service](http://scripts.mit.edu/mail/)
44
45 You can use [procmail](http://www.google.com/search?q=procmail)
46 scripts to
47 [configure scripts to act on e-mail](http://scripts.mit.edu/mail/)
48 sent to your @scripts.mit.edu account.
49
50 ### [Scheduled Jobs Service](http://scripts.mit.edu/cron/ "Cron")
51
52 You can use [cron](http://www.google.com/search?q=cron) to
53 [automatically run commands](http://scripts.mit.edu/cron/) at
54 specified times on scripts.mit.edu.
55
56 ### [Development Blog](http://scripts.mit.edu/news/)
57
58 You can read about new features and changes to scripts.mit.edu on
59 our [development blog](http://scripts.mit.edu/news/).
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