What is CGI and what are CGI scripts?

Question

I saw a folder called cgi-bin for quite some time using apache.

How do scripts help me?

how can i use them?

I used php and ajax only for web development!

Answer 1

G'day

Web server, for example. Apache, just sending back static content, is a response to a client request for content. For example, the request http://www.myserver.com/index.html usually forces the server to open the file and return the contents of the file associated with the corresponding http components.

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