More CGI resources

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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Thanks to Dan at SuperFiles.com for helping dig up these resource links.