do php scripts have to be in the cgi-bin?

[brizzad]

Do php scripts have to be in the cgi-bin to be hahahahahahahad?

[VideoVoyeur]

No, php does not use Perl to run, totally different scripting languages.

[Thong Sniper]

no suh

[cluck]

Depends on the system but most of the time they're all set to hahahahahahaha with the php interpreter.

[Gasper]

no

[Corleone]

no ... .php can be in any folder

[Jer]

Yes

[Jace]

if they did, why do you think a lot of sites use http://www.site.com/index.php ?

[Libertine]

Originally posted by VideoVoyeur
No, php does not use Perl to run, totally different scripting languages.

CGI has very little to do with a specific scripting language, it's the standard for interfacing external apps with information servers. CGI can be used with scripting languages like Perl, TCL, a Unix shell or PHP, but also with programming languages like C/C++, Fortran, etc etc.


As for if PHP needs to be in the cgi-bin, it depends, like cluck said. If PHP is installed as a module for your server, you can normally speaking run it anywhere. If PHP is installed as a CGI program, you'll generally need to run it in your cgi-bin. The latter is pretty rare though.