what are some thing's you can do when youre server is using apache. are you able to have people use form's on ur website when you have this on youre server i dont have Php and the only program i have on my server is apache. i read somewhere if you have full acces to youre cgi bin you can use this to do stuff like having a automatic newsletter

Apache is the web server and you have to put content the folders under DocumentRoot listed in the apache config file. HTML and CSS will work but if you want PHP, you have to install it separately and put a line or two in the apache config file.

If you want to use CGI then there should be Perl or Python scripts for what you are looking for.

I would recommend installing PHP for several reasons.

1. It's easy to install
2. It's easy to pick up and program with
3. There is a huge level of user participation in the PHP community

Beside, what good is a web server without a server side language these days?