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**scripts.mit.edu** is a hosting service for the MIT community that
provides several popular web packages such as **MediaWiki** and
**WordPress**, as well as **CGI script**, **MySQL**, **cron**, and
**procmail** hosting. The service is
**free to any Athena account holder** or group locker. It has over
3000 registered user accounts, and is used by a number of student
organizations and academic groups at MIT.

The scripts.mit.edu service is provided by the
[Student Information Processing Board](http://sipb.mit.edu/)
(SIPB), MIT’s volunteer student group dedicated to computing. It is
neither run nor supported by [IS&T](http://ist.mit.edu/), and we
make no guarantees about
[uptime or support](/faq/136/what-level-of-support-does-scriptsmitedu-provide).

We encourage scripts.mit.edu users to subscribe to our
[announcement mailing list](https://mailman.mit.edu:444/mailman/listinfo/scripts-announce).

### [Quick-Start Installers](http://scripts.mit.edu/start/)

You can easily [install](http://scripts.mit.edu/start/) a new wiki,
blog, photo gallery, forum, CMS, guestbook, or Trac by simply
running two commands at an Athena prompt:

> athena% **add scripts**  
> athena% **scripts**

### [Web Script Service](http://scripts.mit.edu/web/)

Athena users and group lockers can serve CGI scripts (Perl, PHP,
Python, Ruby, Scheme, etc.) on the web using the
[scripts.mit.edu hosting service](http://scripts.mit.edu/web/).

### [MySQL Service](http://sql.mit.edu/)

This service provides [MySQL](http://dev.mysql.com/doc) databases
to Athena users and group lockers. SQL commands can be issued from
any host, client, and/or script of your choice; simply connect to
the [MySQL server at sql.mit.edu](http://sql.mit.edu/) using your
MySQL username and password.

### [Mail Script Service](http://scripts.mit.edu/mail/)

You can use [procmail](http://www.google.com/search?q=procmail)
scripts to
[configure scripts to act on e-mail](http://scripts.mit.edu/mail/)
sent to your @scripts.mit.edu account.

### [Scheduled Jobs Service](http://scripts.mit.edu/cron/ "Cron")

You can use [cron](http://www.google.com/search?q=cron) to
[automatically run commands](http://scripts.mit.edu/cron/) at
specified times on scripts.mit.edu.

### [Development Blog](http://scripts.mit.edu/news/)

You can read about new features and changes to scripts.mit.edu on
our [development blog](http://scripts.mit.edu/news/).