Do CGI or Perl scripts have to be in a specific directory?


While we provide a cgi-bin as standard for storing your CGI or Perl scripts, you do not need to put your scripts there.

You cannot create a new cgi-bin, but you can put your CGI or Perl scripts into any directory as long as they have a .cgi or .pl extension.



Article ID: 409
Created On: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:20 PM
Last Updated On: Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:27 PM

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