Utiliser des CGI

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/"

<Directory "/usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Options FollowSymLinks
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi

Le script /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/test.cgi doit être exécutable pas tous, et le répertoire /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin doit être accessible par tous. Voici le fichier /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/test.cgi :

#!/bin/sh

# disable filename globbing
set -f

echo Content-type: text/plain
echo

echo CGI/1.0 test script report:
echo

echo argc is $#. argv is "$*".
echo

echo SERVER_SOFTWARE = $SERVER_SOFTWARE
echo SERVER_NAME = $SERVER_NAME
echo GATEWAY_INTERFACE = $GATEWAY_INTERFACE
echo SERVER_PROTOCOL = $SERVER_PROTOCOL
echo SERVER_PORT = $SERVER_PORT
echo REQUEST_METHOD = $REQUEST_METHOD
echo HTTP_ACCEPT = "$HTTP_ACCEPT"
echo PATH_INFO = "$PATH_INFO"
echo PATH_TRANSLATED = "$PATH_TRANSLATED"
echo SCRIPT_NAME = "$SCRIPT_NAME"
echo QUERY_STRING = "$QUERY_STRING"
echo REMOTE_HOST = $REMOTE_HOST
echo REMOTE_ADDR = $REMOTE_ADDR
echo REMOTE_USER = $REMOTE_USER
echo AUTH_TYPE = $AUTH_TYPE
echo CONTENT_TYPE = $CONTENT_TYPE
echo CONTENT_LENGTH = $CONTENT_LENGTH

et voici la page affichée par le navigateur :

CGI/1.0 test script report:

argc is 0. argv is .

SERVER_SOFTWARE = Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) (SuSE/Linux)
SERVER_NAME = tarsier
GATEWAY_INTERFACE = CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL = HTTP/1.0
SERVER_PORT = 80
REQUEST_METHOD = GET
HTTP_ACCEPT = image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */*
PATH_INFO = 
PATH_TRANSLATED = 
SCRIPT_NAME = /cgi-bin/test.cgi
QUERY_STRING = 
REMOTE_HOST =
REMOTE_ADDR = 127.0.0.1
REMOTE_USER =
AUTH_TYPE =
CONTENT_TYPE =
CONTENT_LENGTH =