If you plan on having a website that utilizes CGI such as php or perl, then you must either have a domain or an hcoop.net subdomain (i.e., USER.hcoop.net).
When you have chosen a domain to be hosted by HCoop, you then simply request control of that domain at the portal. Once it is authorized by an administrator, you will be able to utilize DomTool. DomTool will let Apache and other services know about your domain. Please take a look at using DomTool, DomTool user guide, and DomTool examples to learn how to do this. Our nameservers are ns1.hcoop.net and ns2.hcoop.net.
As a hint, DomTool configurations are stored in ~/.domtool/. Some users have made their production configurations readable and so you may be able to learn from them. See the bottom of DomTool examples to find out who is showing off their DomTool configurations.
If your web application needs write access to a data directory, give USER.daemon write permission to it and all of its subdirectories. In this example, be sure to replace USER with your username (lowercase):
fsr sa ./webdata USER.daemon write
Alternatively, use only fs if you need to set the ACL for just one directory.
For database help, take a look at this manual's Databases chapter.
To see how you can transfer files to HCoop, see the Transferring Files chapter.
In addition, .htaccess files are not processed on our servers. See DomTool Examples to learn how to use rewrite rules and other features normally provided by .htaccess.
PHP
We use FastCGI based PHP 7.2 by default to serve .php, .phtml, and .php5 files. We may offer PHP variants (supported variants are documented in the Domtool library reference); to explicitly set the PHP version, use the phpVersion action as follows.
To use PHP 5 in a directory or virtual host:
phpVersion php56;
Common Web Applications
It is likely that another member has configured one of many common applications and documented it on the ../WebApplications page.