CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is a program that translate data from a web server and then displays that data on a web page or in an email. Many people use CGI’s for guest books and email forms. Some hosts have pre-made CGI scripts that are ready to use and plug into a web site. CGI-BIN The most common name of a directory on a web server in which CGI programs are stored. The “bin” part of “cgi-bin” is a shorthand version of “binary”, because once upon a time, most programs were referred to as “binaries”. In real life, most programs found in cgi-bin directories are text files — scripts that are executed by binaries located elsewhere on the same machine.
