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What is the use of page.cgi? What can I do with it?

Jan 28, 2000, 6:08 AM
lesliez
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What is the use of page.cgi? What can I do with it?
Hi there,

What I know is it is for generating dynamic page. But I don't how to use it. Anyone can help me on this...Thanks



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Jan 28, 2000, 10:01 AM
pugdog
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Jan 28, 2000, 10:01 AM
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TO see it work, use your cgi-url:

http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/Links_dir/page.cgi

That will generate pages on the fly.

You can change templates:

http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/Links_dir/page.cgi?t=yahoo

For example, if you installed the other templates. It lets you change the look of the site very easily.

For me, the #1 use is for pre-viewing template changes before re-building the site. To make sure the template looks the way I want it to Smile

Check out the FAQ for some more hints and help on page.cgi and things to change in the templates to make it work right.

Those changes will work without page.cgi as well, but you can't hard-code paths if you want page.cgi to be able to dynamically work with them.




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