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Thanks for your instant support. What I am trying to do is simply run the Linux O.S. commands using CGI + Apache.

Not sure what linux OS commands are, and reserving my comments on what a bad idea this is, but anyway...

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a) In httpd.conf ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/

Ok, this is fine.

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b) Started Perl /usr/bin/perl -w &

And what is this supposed to do? It's basically a no-op. perl will sleep forever, never doing anything. Ever. You do not need this.

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Now I am not exactly Knowing What to do . If someone can give me in simple steps a simple configuration and sample CGI script + I will be reading the links sent by you guys

Put your executable files in /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/ Make sure they are executable Run them from the browser using http://yourserver/cgi-bin/filename

Try following script as your cgi test.

#!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; while (($key, $val) = each %ENV) { print "$key = $val<BR>\n"; }

-Krishna