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| author | Vincent Bray <noodl@apache.org> | 2007-07-23 13:31:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Vincent Bray <noodl@apache.org> | 2007-07-23 13:31:19 +0000 |
| commit | ef5c47b59e89e1310ad3af1a64991f39845f63a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 0bd67f43295273790c7d8080f44a063f1eb211f2 /docs/manual/mod/mod_cgi.html.en | |
| parent | 236ab6fae46c04a8bf34b2d1f2e4b9c85a624506 (diff) | |
| download | httpd-ef5c47b59e89e1310ad3af1a64991f39845f63a7.tar.gz | |
Demote use of AddType for cgi and remove redundant paragraph regarding DOCUMENT_ROOT
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@558718 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_cgi.html.en b/docs/manual/mod/mod_cgi.html.en index 2efd182c56..ef53a99326 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_cgi.html.en +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_cgi.html.en @@ -33,22 +33,15 @@ - <p>Any file that has the mime type - <code>application/x-httpd-cgi</code> or handler - <code>cgi-script</code> (Apache 1.1 or later) will be treated + <p>Any file that has the handler + <code>cgi-script</code> will be treated as a CGI script, and run by the server, with its output being - returned to the client. Files acquire this type either by + returned to the client. Files acquire this handler either by having a name containing an extension defined by the - <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html#addtype">AddType</a></code> directive, or by being + <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html#addhandler">AddHandler</a></code> directive, or by being in a <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#scriptalias">ScriptAlias</a></code> directory.</p> - <p>When the server invokes a CGI script, it will add a variable - called <code>DOCUMENT_ROOT</code> to the environment. This - variable will contain the value of the - <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code> configuration - variable.</p> - <p>For an introduction to using CGI scripts with Apache, see our tutorial on <a href="../howto/cgi.html">Dynamic Content With CGI</a>.</p> @@ -57,6 +50,10 @@ <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgid.html">mod_cgid</a></code> should be used in place of this module. At the user level, the two modules are essentially identical.</p> + + <p>For backward-compatibility, the cgi-script handler will also be activated + for any file with the mime-type <code>application/x-httpd-cgi</code>. The + use of the magic mime-type is deprecated.</p> </div> <div id="quickview"><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3> <ul id="toc"> |