Lighttpd

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Description ===========

CGI programs allow you to enhance the functionality of the server in a very
straight and simple way..

Options =======

cgi.assign

file-extensions that are handled by a CGI program

e.g.: ::

cgi.assign = ( ".pl"  => "/usr/bin/perl",
                   ".cgi" => "/usr/bin/perl" )

For PHP don't forget to set cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 in the php.ini.

To get the old cgi-bin behavior of apache: ::

#Note: make sure that mod_alias is loaded if you use this:
    alias.url += ( "/cgi-bin" => server_root + "/cgi-bin" )
    $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/cgi-bin" {
        cgi.assign = ( "" => "" )
    }

cgi.execute-all

In 1.5.0 and later you can use: ::

$PHYSICAL["existing-path"] =~ "^/cgi-bin/" {
      cgi.execute-all = "enable" 
    }

which does the same thing as cgi.assign = ("" => "") but is more obvious to use.

Examples ========

To setup an executable which can run on its own (e.g. binaries, scripts
with a shebang line) you just don't specify a handler for the extension: ::

cgi.assign = ( ".sh" => "" )

If the file has no extension keep in mind that lighttpd matches not the
extension itself but the right part of the URL: ::

cgi.assign = ( "/testfile" => "" )

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