If you must do it just use webmin (make sure you have SSLeay installed). If this is more of a technical exercise for yourself. Pick up the CGI Programming in C and PERL book by Thomas Bhoutell. It's old but it was one of my faves once upon a time.
-Bryan 2011/6/15 Jean-Frangois SIMON <jfsimon1...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I have a remote controlled machine which I manage by ssh and yet I'm in the > process of making up a small web page through which basic commands can be > passed. > > I have no clear idea regarding how to design this, in the first place I > thought about a cgi script written in C which I did manage to have it say > "hello world" at the present time, but not yet much more. > > There's not yet clear clues regarding how to make this peace of web > interface talk to the system and I would like to make it clean by means of > elegant way to deal with web page <-> system communication. > > Any clue regarding the way it could be ? > > Thanks, > > Jean-Frangois