CGI

Module: mod_cgi

Table of Contents

• Description
• Options
• Examples

Description

CGI programs allow you to enhance the functionality of the server in a very straight-forward and simple way.

Options

cgi.assign

file-extensions that are handled by a CGI program

e.g.:

cgi.assign = ( ".pl"  => "/usr/bin/perl",
               ".cgi" => "/usr/bin/perl" )

For PHP don't forget to set cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 in the php.ini.

To get the old cgi-bin behavior of apache:

#Note: make sure that mod_alias is loaded if you use this:
alias.url += ( "/cgi-bin" => server_root + "/cgi-bin" )
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/cgi-bin" {
    cgi.assign = ( "" => "" )
}

cgi.execute-all

In 1.5.0 and later you can use:

$PHYSICAL["existing-path"] =~ "^/var/www/myvhost/cgi-bin/" {
  cgi.execute-all = "enable"
}

which does the same thing as cgi.assign = ("" => "") but is more obvious to use.

Examples

To setup an executable which can run on its own (e.g. binaries, scripts with a shebang line) you just don't specify a handler for the extension:

cgi.assign = ( ".sh" => "" )

If the file has no extension keep in mind that lighttpd matches not the extension itself but the right part of the URL:

cgi.assign = ( "/testfile" => "" )