PERL is not a necessary component in RaidenHTTPD, but many web programs such as forum softwares use it. It is better to have one so you can make use of many free web programs on the internet.

This is meant to be a little tutorial that tries to explain what a CGI-script is and how to install one on a server. It's targeted towards novice homepage builders, with no previous experience of CGI-scripts. No UNIX experience is required and it's assumed that you only access the server through FTP and not with telnet.

This tutorial gives you the list of the CGI environment variables, set by Apache web-server, when running a script. If you use PHP these variables can be accesed used dollar sign, in Perl you should write $ENV("Var_Name"} to access it.

In this tutorial we are going to guide you through the steps involved in setting up a cgi script and integrating it into your site. Not in theory, but in practice using a script that will automate the running of polls at your site. Even if you already have some sort of a utility that does this you can still follow along and add this to a test page in your site. This installation will involve you in all of the basic steps needed to install any script, once you have successfully completed this one there will be no problem moving on to other and more complex scripts.