Re: How do you get CGI happening?

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Jerry Story wrote:
> 
> I opened the page in a browser.
> 
> But just a few minutes ago I put ecoform.htm and economy.exu on my website and
> then I opened ecoform.htm in a browser. At first it said POST is not allowed.
> So I changed POST to GET. Now it displays economy.exu. Still don't have it
> right.
> 
> economy.exu seems to have code in it that handles GET.

Jerry, you have to have a web server running that receives the incoming
HTTP request and is able to serve up the page. So, for example, Apache would
run your exu program and send the output to the browser.

Without the web server, nothing gets served to the browser (or it acts like
a file viewer).

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