CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javascriptapachecgi
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Reputation: 496

Is it possible to run javascript as cgi script on Apache?

I managed to configure my Apache to run cgi scripts and I tried to use javascript to generate output.

#!C:\php\php.exe

<script>
  document.write("Hello world!");
</script>

However this only sends the contents and the document.write is run on the client. I'd like to send Hello world! by javascript.

I know there is nodejs. I wonder if there is a module for Apache or some settings that enables running javascript on the server and send only the contents of document.write?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1315

Answers (1)

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943981

CGI explicitly spawns an external process, so would use mod_cgi. You could then spawn a Node.js process.

You would, however, need to write a real CGI program and not use a fragment of HTML with embedded JS that depends on browser APIs.

#!/usr/bin/env node

process.stdout.write("Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n");
process.stdout.write("Hello, world");

CGI isn't very efficient, and Node would be an odd choice of language. If you need to go via Apache then it would usually make more sense to run a server using Node and then use mod_proxy to access it via Apache.

Upvotes: 1

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