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Where Should I Put CGI's ?

Standard CGIs reside in the cgi-bin subdirectory. Your CGIs may reside anywhere - but you must name them with the extension .cgi.

Since the server will determine if a file is a CGI by the file extension, ALL CGI SCRIPTS MUST END WITH THE EXTENSION ".CGI" For example, A CGI script named "form" should be named "form.cgi" on the server.

The path of this CGI script will look something like "/www/htdocs/company/cgi/form.cgi" . Although you can put your CGI scripts anywhere, we suggest placing them in a directory called "cgi" (NOTICE: you can not name this directory "cgi-bin")

In this scenario, if your domain name is company.com, you would then access your scripts as http://www.company.com/cgi/form.cgi.


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