September, 2018

Another tech Sunday – they never get old 🙂 This is a somewhat long and boring post. More of a tech journal entry. But who knows, maybe someone else will find it interesting. First let’s backtrack a little – what is CGI you ask? source: https://www.irt.org/articles/js184/ An acronym for Common Gateway Interface, CGI was the first implementation of a server-side ‘gateway’ where http could interact with external applications such as databases. Although CGI is language agnostic, typically PERL scripts were used. CGI is rarely used today due to inherent security vulnerabilities. Then there’s fastcgi And then there’s php-fpm (FastCGI process…