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== Deploy a CGI script ==

This is easier than it sounds as no programming experience is required and all of the instructions can be found in the httpd manuals.

== Apache config for CGI ==

<syntaxhighlight>
LoadModule cgi_module
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin"
</syntaxhighlight>

First the cgi module must be loaded. The second directive points apache to look for scripts in <hostname>/cgi-bin/

By default the directory container does not allow for executable scripts:

<syntaxhighlight>
<directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</directory>
</syntaxhighlight>

Some changes must be made to allow CGI scripts to be exectuted:

<syntaxhighlight>
<directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .pl
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</directory>
</syntaxhighlight>

== A simple CGI script ==

This is the example script hello.pl from the httpd-manuals

<syntaxhighlight>
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: "text/html\n\n";
print "Hello World"
</syntaxhighlight>

Set the permissions to 755 using chmod. The SELinux context should be inherited from the /var/www/cgi-bin directory.

Once this is all set up, you can point your browser towards the cgi script you should see the output of the script.

<syntaxhighlight>
http://boston1.example.com/cgi-bin/hello.pl
</syntaxhighlight>

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