Overview Of Cgi - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 08-2002 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
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 298 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 order to run the command-line utilities, you need to manually
set the variable to include server_root
Path
processes running
Cgistub
/bin/https/bin
.