Jack Wallen explains why you'd want to enable the Common Gateway Interface on an Apache server and then shows how to do it. It’s time to go a little old-school and lay out how to enable the Common ...

The CGI (Common Gateway Interface) defines a way for a web server to interact with external content-generating programs, which are often referred to as CGI programs or CGI scripts. It is the simplest, ...

I have an Apache 2.0 server that I'm trying to set up to serve CGI files. <BR><BR>I have a sciptalias set up that points all URL's with the path /cgi-bin/ to the /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/ directory.

If you're operating a Web server, chances are, you're not merely serving up static text and images. You're likely to be running some Web applications as well, where pages are generated on the fly by ...

Any file that has the handler cgi-script will be treated as a CGI script, and run by the server, with its output being returned to the client. Files acquire this handler either by having a name ...

I've been stuck at the same point for 2 days. I'm trying to get a MoinMoin wiki up and running on Apache on a clean FC3 install.<BR><BR>No matter what I do with ...