Thanks for all your help, I will try your suggestions. I am using Xitami as my local web server. It is running on WINNT. The solution i finally decided to use is to run the scripts local and then FTP the HTML code and pictures to the production server, which is IIS 4.0 on winnt. This way i can have the administrator local, and don't have to think too much of security (I can eiter make the server acessable only to our IP adresses or give it a private IP number) Making the perl scripts FTP the stuff will make the process transparent for the users also.