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Need to supercharge your Web site? Got a database of products, and no way to get them online. You need to harness the power of CGI programming. Using languages such as Perl, ASP and PHP, you can create interactive, intelligent sites. This is part one of the series that appeared in .net magazine. Subscribe now so you don't any of the upcoming articles!
 

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There's nothing like a bunch of jargon to make you feel dumb. Here's what it all means...

CGI - Common Gateway Interface. The standard way for a Web server to send and receive data to and from the user

cgi-bin - the most common name for the directory on your Web server where CGI scripts are uploaded to.

chmod - a Unix program that changes the permissions on files. See 'file permissions'.

file permissions - Unix files and directories are given permissions to say who can read and write to them, as well as if they can be executed. Perl scripts and cgi-bin directories should have their permissions set to 755, which indicates anyone can read and execute them, but only their owner can write to them.

Host - a company that provides space on their Web server. If you're using CGI and Perl, you must make sure your host is set up to let you run your scripts on their server. See the Resources section

Open Source - a licensing model that states that the source code of the software must be freely available, enabling anyone to modify it and contribute to the software's development. See www.opensource.org

Perl - Practical Extraction and Reporting Language (or Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister). A scripting language created by Larry Wall to handle Unix system administration tasks. Rapidly became a popular CGI programming language, and has been referred to as 'the glue of the Internet'

Web server - a computer that sends Web pages to a user's browser. There are many different Web server programs available, including IIS for Windows 2000, Apache and Xitami

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