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Cgi is the common gateway interface, used for interactive webpages.

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Why is my browser displaying the Content-Type line?

Following what's described here --- https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/cgi.html --- I've created a tiny Perl document: #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n"; print "Hello, World."; and called it first.pl. I've also…
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Lighttpd CGI downloads .py instead of running it

I have two CGI test scripts in lighttpd. When I open Bash http://host/cgi-bin/test.sh URL I get a valid response from the script. But when I open Python http://host/cgi-bin/test.py the file is downloaded in browser instead of being run by CGI…
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lighttpd: ajax request prints the content of cgi script instead of running it

I am using lighttpd version 1.4.55 within an ARM environment. I created an HTML pages in which there is a button used to download some json data. This button trigger a submit form that calls a cgi script. This script has to take the output of the…
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python.exe - The FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

I'm trying to host a Flask (Python) application on a Windows server, but it was giving me request timeout error, then I changed it to 300 seconds (5 minutes), and after that, it's giving me an activity timeout error, and I did the same for this, but…
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CGI scripts: when can you return a document, instead of an HTTP response?

Script 1 below is bash, and is at https://example.com/cgi-bin/test. It produces the output 'Under construction' when fetched. It echos Status and Content-type headers, and some HTML. If I instead try to echo an entire HTML doc Apache just complains…
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When is a new PHP-CGI process created?

My production server has been having a OOM issue. Upon investigating I find that a major memory eater is PHP-CGI processes. Each of my website, be it Joomla or Wordpress, is having 3 - 6 PHP-CGI processes and each of the processes is taking around…
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Run a perl script in a browser via a link

I'm attempting to get a perl script up and running on Oracle Linux 8.5. My Apache server and virtual hosts work with static html. My test virtual host, fnu, has a very basic perl script named hw.pl in /var/www/fnu: #!/usr/bin/perl print…
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Prevent Apache2 from executing CGI in Static Directory

I am running an Apache 2 web server running on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I have a Python CGI handler enabled for the /var/www/html directory, which is the DocumentRoot. I am wondering how to exclude a certain directory from running CGI for Python…
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Configuration issue adding AWStat to Apache v2.2

I'm trying to add AWStats to my working Apache website. But when I go to my perl script it fails: http://localhost/awstats/awstats.pl?config=my.domain.here I get this error 500 in the browser: Internal Server Error The server encountered an…
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2010 cgi script failure

I hope you can help, I'm just a beginner! I have listed a few extra details which may not be relevant. I upload cgi scripts onto local/personal directory on a Apache/2.2.10 server, using FTP95Pro in ASCII. The scripts execute correctly using perl on…
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Failed to set up Apache for executing PERL file in FreeBSD

I've successfully installed perl5 and apache24 in FreeBSD 12. Then I enabled apache24 in /etc/rc.conf and see index.html placed in the path /usr/local/www/apache24/data. Then in the file /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf I've uncommented the…
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SCGI vs FastCGI - Which one is faster?

I want to use one of servers - libscgi and libfcgi - with dynamic content. Which one seems to be faster?
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How to prevent users from executing cgi scripts directly?

Apache server. There is a python script in http/cgi-bin which is used to display some content on a page. But a user can then do \/cgi-bin/ to access it directly, which is a bit ugly. Is it possible to prevent this? The same…
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CGI binary does not execute, instead gets downloaded

I have an apache 2.4.46-3 server, which serves out of /srv/http. I have a folder /srv/http/bin with 2 files: .htacces (mode 644): AddHandler cgi-script .exe Options +ExecCGI main.exe (mode 755): compiled from main.cpp: #include using…
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How to Enable Immediate CGI Line Outputs With Nginx, Without Waiting for a CGI Script to Finish?

I have a perl and shell script that process a bunch of data and output results as they happen, like: 5 processed in 0.58 seconds. 10 processed in 0.79 seconds. ... 150 processed in 0.65 seconds. DONE! etc. However, when I visit the URL with Chrome,…
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