Re: How do you get CGI happening?

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c.k.lester wrote:
> 
> 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).

The web server also has to have some way of knowing how to invoke the
interpreter.
the economy program assumes a Linux based server (#!.exu is the interpreter
invoked)

IIS I believe you have to some 

alternatey, if you have cleared the syntax,
 you can bind a program into a CGI executable 


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