CGI for dummies failed

Shari shari at gypsyware.com
Sun Aug 20 12:12:31 CDT 2006


My ISP and webhost are different.  My webhost uses FreeBSD UNIX 
servers according to their About info.  Would this still need Linux?


>You need to match the engine to the OS that is running it. If you 
>are uploading your scripts to your ISP, the OS is almost always 
>Linux these days. Try the Linux engine. The hardware makes no 
>difference; it is the OS that matters.
>
>If you are  trying this out on your local machine and you're running 
>OS X, you'll need the Darwin engine. This is not the same as the 
>engine that ships with the distribution. The tutorial has info on 
>that.
>
>You should save your scripts with Unix line breaks in either case. 
>BBEdit will do this.


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