# Need help getting perl cgis to work **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [January 5, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-getting-perl-cgis-to-work/215479 "2012-01-05T14:26:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-getting-perl-cgis-to-work/215479/1 "2012-01-05T14:26:28Z")
hey folks, ive been running apache for years but now trying to use nginx. I have nginx and php(with fastcgi) working fine, but whenever I try to bring up my web page that has a perl cgi on it, it just downloads the script instead of executing it… I cant figure out how to make it work right… basically heres the config that I have for it in my apache conf ScriptAliasMatch ^/blog/?(.\*) /var/www/localhost/htdocs/blog/blog.pl/$1 and \ Options +Includes \ Options ExecCGI when do I need to do to get nginx to properly execute the perl cgi? thanks/regards, Jason ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-getting-perl-cgis-to-work/215479/2 "2012-01-05T14:43:47Z")
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:25:43AM -0500, [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: Hi there, > hey folks, ive been running apache for years but now trying to use nginx. I have > nginx and php(with fastcgi) > working fine, but whenever I try to bring up my web page that has a perl cgi on > it, it just downloads the script > when do I need to do to get nginx to properly execute the perl cgi? nginx doesn’t do cgi. You’ll need to run some separate server that nginx can talk to as a client, that is able to do whatever processing you want. If you have a http server that handles the cgi for you, you can “proxy\_pass” to that. If you have a fastcgi server that is set up to do the right thing with your cgi script, you can “fastcgi\_pass” to that. There are also other options. On the nginx side, you configure it in a similar way to your php-via-fastcgi configuration. ## f Francis D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-getting-perl-cgis-to-work/215479/3 "2012-01-05T22:34:24Z")
As others have mentioned, Nginx doesn’t support CGI. Please see [Getting Started | NGINX](http://wiki.nginx.org/Configuration#CGI) for a couple different options. Cliff ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-getting-perl-cgis-to-work/215479/4 "2012-01-05T15:35:20Z")
Hi, I use the [http://localdomain.pl/wiki/FcgiWrap](http://localdomain.pl/wiki/FcgiWrap) for mailgraph.cgi behind nginx. BR Aleks ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-getting-perl-cgis-to-work/215479/5 "2012-01-05T22:56:02Z")
You can find three different solutions here: > **[Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04](https://www.howtoforge.com/serving-cgi-scripts-with-nginx-on-debian-squeeze-ubuntu-11.04)** > > Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04 > > This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with > nginx on Debi... (I prefer Fcgiwrap.) ----- Original Message ----- From: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) To: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 2:25 PM Subject: need help getting perl cgis to work. ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-getting-perl-cgis-to-work/215479/6 "2012-01-06T03:42:15Z")
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Falko T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > You can find three different solutions here: > **[Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04](https://www.howtoforge.com/serving-cgi-scripts-with-nginx-on-debian-squeeze-ubuntu-11.04)** > > Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04 > > This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with > nginx on Debi... > And another one here: > **[The uWSGI project — uWSGI 2.0 documentation](https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)** – O\< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - [www.asciiribbon.org](http://www.asciiribbon.org)