Setting Up CGI Scripts on the CS Webservers

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Calling up your CGI script

To call up your cgi-script via a web browser, use the following format (replace “username” with your username and “test.pl” with your perl script name.)

(Note: Your cgi-script should reside in your public_html/cgi-bin directory.)

On the CS Grad Net: 

               http://www.cs.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/username/test.pl

On the CS Ugrad Net: 


               http://ugrad.cs.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/username/test.pl


Creating your first CGI script

CS Faculty, Grad Students, Staff, Researchers and Post Docs: Log into one of the CS Grad Net Linux machines.

CS Ugrad Students: Log into one of the CS Ugrad Net Linux machines.

mkdir ~username/public_html/cgi-bin (NOTE: You might already have this directory created for you.)

chmod 705 ~username/public_html/cgi-bin

cd ~username/public_html/cgi-bin

Create your cgi/perl script in the cgi-bin directory.

Make sure the top line of your perl script says: 

                #!/usr/local/bin/perl

Save your perl script.

chmod 704 test.pl (replace the name “test.pl” with your script name.)