Russell, cgi is a server side app. So if you can't execute a cgi file from a web browser it is because maybe your web server is not configured correctly.
Not using a fully qualified domain name change 127.0.0.1 the localhost loop back to a real name or the ip of your NIC > Hi > problems with cgi and lots of questions for a newbie.... > I've installed ht://dig to make it quick to search html on this box. > When a word is searched with default search page the browser returns > 'the file /cgi-bin/htsearch/ cannot be found. Please check location and > try again' > > htdig built the database and htsearch runs from the command line. > eg /usr/lib/cgi-bin/htsearch words=linux > /tmp/result.html produces a > web page. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
