Overview Of Cgi - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 04-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Installing CGI Programs
In addition, the following sections discuss how to install CGI programs specific to
Windows NT/Windows 2000:
• Installing Windows NT/Windows 2000 CGI Programs
• Installing Shell CGI Programs for Windows NT/Windows 2000

Overview of CGI

Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programs can be defined with any number of
programming languages. On a UNIX/Linux machine, you're likely to find CGI
programs written as Bourne shell or Perl scripts.
NOTE
For more information see the discussion regarding
CGIStubIdleTimeout
and Scaling Guide.
On a Windows NT/Windows 2000 computer, you might find CGI programs
written in C++ or batch files. For Windows NT/Windows 2000, CGI programs
written in a Windows-based programming language such as Visual Basic® use a
different mechanism to operate with the server. They are called Windows
NT/Windows 2000 CGI programs. See "Installing Windows NT/Windows 2000
CGI Programs," on page 300 for information about Windows NT/Windows 2000
CGI.
NOTE
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Under UNIX/Linux, there are extra
that the server uses to aid in CGI execution. These processes are
created only during the first access to a CGI. Their number varies
depending upon the CGI load on the server. Do not kill these
processes. They disappear when the server is stopped.
Cgistub
in the Netscape Enterprise Server Performance Tuning, Sizing,
In order to run the command-line utilities, you need to manually
set the variable to include server_root
Path
processes running
Cgistub
,
MinCGIStub MaxCGIStub
/bin/https/bin
, and
.