Showing posts with label CGI application. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CGI application. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

CGI mode

Unlike previous versions that were either CGI program or hypertext pre-processor, from WhizBase 5 it can be used both ways.

To use WhizBase in CGI mode you still need valid WBSP file, but instead of calling WBSP file directly (e.g. http://someserver/somefile.wbsp) you should insert in your URL engine file followed by full wbsp file path relative to the web server's root directory (e.g. http://someserver/cgi-bin/wbsp.exe/somefile.wbsp).

Due to security reasons we have disabled direct execution of the engine file
(e.g. http://someserver/cgi-bin/wbsp.exe?wb_basename=somebase.mdb&wb_rcdset=sometable&wb_command=q will not work).

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