Need help for CGI

elmerliu · 09-25-2004, 07:07 PM

Hi all,

I was asked to create a form that capture linux command to be sent to a perl program that will execute that command locally on the server, capture the output of that command,create a web page with that output ,and send it back to the caller as a new webpage. I am totally new to CGI and I just wondering how can I capture arbitrary linux command and then get result?

THANKS!

d0odman · 09-25-2004, 07:49 PM

CGI would be the way to go, but an easier approach would be to use SSI which is built in to Apache.

I can't help you with coding up a forms HTML page, but I am absolutely certain you can put linux commands in to your HTML that will run on the server locally as the user that Apache runs as (normally nobody).

Look through the Apache dox for SSI and Server Side Includes.