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Purpose Of Cgi-bin?

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I'm not sure if i'm posting in the right (sub)forum but it certainly has something to do with it B) .Now, i wonder what's the meaning of "cgi-bin". When connecting to ftp you find a folder with this name. Can anyone tell me what its function is?I also found this folders :P :- _vti_bin- _vti_cnf- _vti_log- _vti_pvt- _vti_txtThanks in advance! :D

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I also found this folders:-  _vti_bin
-  _vti_cnf
-  _vti_log
-  _vti_pvt
-  _vti_txt

Those are for people who use Microsoft Frontpage extensions (or whatever they are called). If you don't use Frontpage you can safely delete them.

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cgi-bin is a default folder with execute privileges so that you can put perl scripts, Unix sh scripts and probably ruby scripts into it and run. Of course you can run some of the scripts in other folder if the host allows. But cgi-bin is a legacy thing that most of the scripts will probably run there. You may not like the /cgi-bin/ folder in your address, so some hosts offer an option for you to include cgi as a subdomain. Also, the host has to have perl mod and things ready.

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that's practically what I said..... but, pearl scripts actually work outside of the cgi-bin. I used to have scripts outside of cgi-bin that were pearl. Note: LINUX comes with perl because most graphical and function requires pearl.xboxrulz

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