- From: Paul Ramsey <pramsey@postmodern.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 95 15:25:25 PDT
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org, pf2eng@basil.acs.bolton.ac.uk
> Can anyone tell me whether cgi scripts have to be in the cgi-bin directory > as i wish to write and use them all though i do not have access to this > directory. > > also what is Perl (is it a interpriter or compiler ) and is it avaliable > for VMS It is possible to configure an httpd server to execute items from any directory you like but if you don't have access to the cgi-bin directory then you surely wouldn't have access to the httpd configuration file. Because of the security issues related to cgi scripts I wouldn't allow anyone other than the webmaster install cgi scripts. Paul Ramsey
Received on Monday, 5 June 1995 18:32:42 UTC