Free CGI Tutorial for Interactive Websites

Create a Website's CGI tutorial for Interactive Websites, takes the confusion out of building HTML forms and the CGI scripts to process them. Lessons are for beginners and advanced users.

We now offer an online CGI tutorial and a Free CGI script gallery.

This complete CGI tutorial teaches you to build your scripts and troubleshoot them. You'll learn to use sendmail, set file permissions and more.

What is CGI?

Trying not to be too technical in our definitions, CGI uses a system of files located on a server to process scripts written in languages like Perl and Python.

These scripts take the information collected from the forms that you build in HTML and perform operations like; saving it to a file, returning a message to the screen or sending an email response to the user.

With a Localhost server and this Perl CGI tutorial you can build forms and test them right on your computer!!

You'll need CGI for guestbooks, forms, returning email messages and other tasks. You can use it to create custom reports or check the keyword density of your html pages. Create a Site's CGI Tutorial will show you how!