• CGIwithForms

maintained by Prof. Brian Fiedler

CGI with Forms

CGI was introduced in the Regular Expressions Tutorial. If you are new to CGI, then you may want to study that tutorial before proceeding.

Here you will be tutored in CGI by studying and experimenting with a system just like mine: formscgi. You may download and untar formscgi.tar and install it in your public_html directory on Gentry. After changing a "bfiedler" in mesoplot2.cgi, it should work "out of the box" (for users on Gentry).

Note that CGI scripts for Gentry users are executed by Apache using suexec. Hopefully, for the purposes of completing the task, you will need to know very little about suexec. CGI scripts should have ZERO permissions for "group" and "others". Files written by your CGI scripts, and intended to be retrieved by Apache, need to be chmod'ed to allow the "group" to read it. This chmod'ing needs to be done by the script itself: see mesoplot2.cgi.