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Top Forums Programming Shell script not for CGI Post 303041459 by Neo on Monday 25th of November 2019 04:08:36 AM
Old 11-25-2019
Using traditional unix shell scripting is not optimal for processing HTTP forms on the server-side, for a number of reasons.

Here is a reference to the programming languages used by the biggest web sites, hopefully you will find this useful:

Programming languages used in most popular websites

Also, if you look at the large Web CMS frameworks, like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc; most of them are written in PHP. I guess it is just a matter of time when we will start to see huge (highly popular, widely used) CMS frameworks in Python. If anyone knows of one, please post.

If you look at the largest site (Google), their web backend is mostly written in Python.

If you look at the second largest, Facebook, their back end language is most in PHP, followed by YouTube (again written in Python) and then Yahoo, written mostly in PHP.

So, I would consider either Python or PHP if you want to get into the nuts-and-bolts of writing web applications on the server side.

I don't know any top tier web site which uses shell scripts on the server side to process web requests (CGI); however, the list above does show that Amazon and Yahoo both user PERL, but PERL is also not a shell script; it is a programming language like PHP, Python, C#, etc.
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hobbitcgi.cfg

HOBBITCGI.CFG(5)						File Formats Manual						  HOBBITCGI.CFG(5)

NAME

       hobbitcgi.cfg - Command-line parameters for the Xymon CGI tools

SYNOPSIS

       $BBHOME/etc/hobbitcgi.cfg

DESCRIPTION

       hobbitcgi.cfg(1) controls the commandline options passed to all of the Xymon CGI tools through their respective shell-script wrappers. Typ-
       ically the options listed here are used for system-wide configuration of the CGI utilities, e.g. to define where  they  read  configuration
       files.

       The exact set of commandline options available are described in the man-page for each of the CGI utilities.

       The file is "sourced" into the shell script wrapper, so assignments to the CGI-specific variables must follow standard shell-script syntax.

SETTINGS

       CGI_ACKINFO_OPTS
	      Options for the hobbit-ackinfo.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_ACK_OPTS
	      Options for the bb-ack.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_CSVINFO_OPTS
	      Options for the bb-csvinfo.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_DATEPAGE_OPTS
	      Options for the bb-datepage.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_ENADIS_OPTS
	      Options for the hobbit-enadis.cgi(8) utility.

       CGI_EVENTLOG_OPTS
	      Options for the bb-eventlog.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_FINDHOST_OPTS
	      Options for the bb-findhost.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_HIST_OPTS
	      Options for the bb-hist.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_HOBBITCOLUMN_OPTS
	      Xymon-specific  options for column documentation. This uses the bb-csvinfo.cgi(1) utility with the server/etc/columndoc.cfg configu-
	      ration file.

       CGI_HOBBITCONFREPORT_OPTS
	      Options for the hobbit-confreport.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_HOBBITGRAPH_OPTS
	      Options for the hobbitgraph.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_HOSTGRAPHS_OPTS
	      Options for the hobbit-hostgraphs.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_NKEDIT_OPTS
	      Options for the hobbit-nkedit.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_NKVIEW_OPTS
	      Options for the hobbit-nkview.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_REPLOG_OPTS
	      Options for the bb-replog.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_REP_OPTS
	      Options for the bb-rep.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_SNAPSHOT_OPTS
	      Options for the bb-snapshot.cgi(1) utility.

       CGI_SVCHIST_OPTS
	      Options for the hobbitsvc.cgi(1) utility when used to view historical logs. Note that the "--historical" option must be included	in
	      this setting.

       CGI_SVC_OPTS
	      Options for the hobbitsvc.cgi(1) utility.

SEE ALSO

       xymon(7), the individual CGI utility man-pages.

Xymon							    Version 4.2.3:  4 Feb 2009						  HOBBITCGI.CFG(5)
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