Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Fedora 15 | Linux Today

Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Fedora 15

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
Nov 7, 2011

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl
scripts) with nginx on Fedora 15. While nginx itself does not serve
CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline two
solutions: the first is to proxy requests for CGI scripts to
Thttpd, a small web server that has CGI support, while the second
solution uses a CGI wrapper to serve CGI scripts.”


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