CGI - "Hello world"

See also: Quick and Easy CGI - A Beginner's Tutorial and Guide

Download "rebol core" interpreter from Rebol's download page. Save that executable to the www folder of your Cheyenne.

Now create the following script in a plain text editor and save it as myfirst.cgi in the same www folder.

#!www/rebol.exe -c

REBOL []

print "Hello world!"

print "<br/>"

print ["Date/time is:" now]

Your www folder now should look like this:

Now if your server is running (port 80) and you type localhost/myfirst.cgi in your browser's address bar, you get:

Explaining the script:

#!www/rebol.exe -c                ; This line is very important

; it tells your server the

; path to the interpreter.

; The -c option tells Rebol to

; run on CGI mode.

REBOL []                

print "Hello world!"                ; Sends "Hello world!" to the browser.

print "<br/>"                        ; Sends an HTML code for carriage return.

print ["Date/time is:" now]        ; Sends time and date

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