Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On CentOS 6.0 | Linux Today

Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On CentOS 6.0

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
Oct 24, 2011

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl
scripts) with nginx on CentOS 6.0. 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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