 Purpose Of Cgi-bin? |
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 Jan 24 2005, 07:24 PM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 24-September 04 From: Belgium Member No.: 1,260  |
I'm not sure if i'm posting in the right (sub)forum but it certainly has something to do with it
 .Now, i wonder what's the meaning of "cgi-bin". When connecting to ftp you find a folder with this name. Can anyone tell me what its function is? I also found this folders  :- _vti_bin - _vti_cnf - _vti_log - _vti_pvt - _vti_txt Thanks in advance! 
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Jan 24 2005, 07:31 PM
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.: http://www.xgnews.tk :. Group: Members Posts: 119 Joined: 29-October 04 Member No.: 2,025 |
Also curious about this one oO.
I know they're there, and I know cgi-bin is created in every folder you create on your FTP, but I have no idea of what it actually does... |
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Jan 24 2005, 07:43 PM
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POWERED BY LINUX! Group: Members Posts: 607 Joined: 11-July 04 From: Toronto, Canada Member No.: 78 |
cgi-bin is the folder where you put all your CGI scripts in. Perl, PHP and other server scripts do not require cgi-bin.
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Jan 24 2005, 10:26 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 378 Joined: 8-January 05 Member No.: 3,174 |
QUOTE(gotcha41 @ Jan 24 2005, 08:24 PM) I also found this folders: - _vti_bin - _vti_cnf - _vti_log - _vti_pvt - _vti_txt Those are for people who use Microsoft Frontpage extensions (or whatever they are called). If you don't use Frontpage you can safely delete them. |
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Jan 25 2005, 12:34 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 283 Joined: 17-December 04 Member No.: 2,764 |
cgi-bin is a default folder with execute privileges so that you can put perl scripts, Unix sh scripts and probably ruby scripts into it and run. Of course you can run some of the scripts in other folder if the host allows. But cgi-bin is a legacy thing that most of the scripts will probably run there. You may not like the /cgi-bin/ folder in your address, so some hosts offer an option for you to include cgi as a subdomain. Also, the host has to have perl mod and things ready.
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Jan 25 2005, 02:36 AM
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POWERED BY LINUX! Group: Members Posts: 607 Joined: 11-July 04 From: Toronto, Canada Member No.: 78 |
that's practically what I said..... but, pearl scripts actually work outside of the cgi-bin. I used to have scripts outside of cgi-bin that were pearl. Note: LINUX comes with perl because most graphical and function requires pearl.
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