Cgi-Bin

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See also: UNIX | Server

Acronym: Common Gateway Interface - Binary

CGI is a standard for creating dynamic content on <code>*</code>NIX-based web-servers. When users request a document in the /cgi-bin directory, instead of sending you the document, the web-server will pass the request to the named program. This program then generates the requested document, based upon the contents of a backend database. (NB: The /cgi-bin directory is standard configuration; this can be adjusted.)