Any script language for which there is a script interpreter
installed in your system (at a location where Roxen can access
it) can be run as a CGI (Common Gateway Interface) script. The
traditional form for this is to write them as Unix scripts, with
a first line of
#! /path/to/the/interpreter |
followed by the actual script. An example in Perl (assuming the
Perl interpreter is installed as /usr/bin/perl, which is the common
place for it on many Unix systems) might look like this:
#! /usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/html\r\n"; print
"\r\n"; print "Current time according to the server: ",
scalar(localtime), "\n"; |
On Unix, we can use the traditional login shell as a script
interpreter, if we want to:
#! /bin/sh
echo 'Content-type: text/html\r'
echo '\r'
echo "Current time according to the server: `date`" |
See the CGI section in the
System Developer Manual for more information about CGI scripts.
