Re: [1/8OT] How to open .cgi

[Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com>]

On Wednesday 07 March 2012 11:53:02 pm lina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know how to run .cgi in debian (or iceweasle)
> 
> I put it in
> 
> :/var/www/try$ ls -l
> 
> total 4
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 212 Mar  8 12:29 hello.cgi
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> 
> Best regards,

You misunderstand CGI.  It is a way that a script that generates a web page 
can have that page displayed in a browser window.  CGI is internal to the web 
browser.  You use a language like perl or whatever to generate the script that 
the web server picks up and processes.

Better regards,

Mark