- BigNoseBird.com’s
Basic CGI Primer
- “I swear that no animals were hurt in the making of this
web page.” Rats. Gotta love this guy’s attitude,
and he really explains things well too.
- CGI Made Really Easy
- James says he’ll have you up to speed in just one hour. He
even wrote a page of footnotes.
- CGI Programming 101
- Yes! Shows you everything you need to do, step by step.
[NOT affiliated with the site you’re
looking at; we just happened
independently to settle on the same obvious title]
- CGI
Script Installation
- This word from India: “Lots of doorways are there, so never
freak out.”
- Matt Kruse’s
‘no nonsense’ Intro to CGI
- a/k/a Why won’t this script work on my server?
- Creating a successful Perl CGI script
- Michael Bluejay’s full-armor battle plan. Mainly for a Un*x crowd
that’s comfortable with technical detail.
- U-Va
troubleshooting help
- Perl-oriented, well annotated list of problems that can
“break” your script.
- Web Developer’s
Virtual Library
- Good intro to CGI, and plenty of links
to scripts, tutorials, and more. But they stole the ‘Dark
Side of the Moon’ graphic from NCSA. Uncool.
- Extropia
- Aimed at people with hands-on server access. Application scripts
to download, lots of general webmastering info, bitchin
Photoshop tutorial, and the indispensable “intro to Java
in Slovak”
- NCSA Overview
- Including a few sample programs, security tips and more.
From the people who invented the Web browser, which is why
their pages have a quaint year-1995 look. (I should talk)
- The CGI
Specification
- More technical detail from NCSA, and concepts such as environment
variables, the command line, and standard input and output.
- CGI City
- Lots of free scripts to peruse.
- FreeGB
- A guestbook that runs on their server, in case it’s
not an option to run one on yours. But theirs seems to get hacked
a lot.
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