Configure CGI script » History » Version 3
Rob Tjalma, 08/26/2016 01:27 PM
| 1 | 1 | Rob Tjalma | h1. Configure CGI script |
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| 3 | 1 | Rob Tjalma | Instructions about how to create a CGI script for connecting to the SQLite database. |
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| 5 | 1 | Rob Tjalma | h3. Script example |
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| 7 | 1 | Rob Tjalma | <pre> |
| 8 | 3 | Rob Tjalma | #!/bin/sh |
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| 10 | 1 | Rob Tjalma | echo |
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| 12 | 1 | Rob Tjalma | QUERY_STRING = "$QUERY_STRING" |
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| 14 | 3 | Rob Tjalma | # The name of the database |
| 15 | 3 | Rob Tjalma | export DB_NAME="name.db" |
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| 17 | 3 | Rob Tjalma | python path/to/file.py $QUERY_STRING $DB_NAME |
| 18 | 1 | Rob Tjalma | </pre> |
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| 20 | 1 | Rob Tjalma | Very easy CGI script. |
| 21 | 1 | Rob Tjalma | The *QUERY_STRING* variable contains all the query parameters in the URL. |
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| 23 | 1 | Rob Tjalma | _Example:_ |
| 24 | 2 | Rob Tjalma | <pre>http://example.example/webservice/test.cgi?q=value&callback=function</pre> |
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| 26 | 1 | Rob Tjalma | *QUERY_STRING* will give you: |
| 27 | 1 | Rob Tjalma | <pre>q=value&callback=function</pre> |
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| 29 | 3 | Rob Tjalma | Second argument is the name of the database. |
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| 31 | 1 | Rob Tjalma | The python file in the repository takes one argument, the *QUERY_STRING* value. |