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**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [November 8, 2011, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-shell-script-from-html-webpage/213662 "2011-11-08T11:01:36Z")\
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**Author:**  [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-shell-script-from-html-webpage/213662/1 "2011-11-08T11:01:36Z")
I have a Nginx installed on Linux (Ubuntu or Centos) without any
scripting language such as PHP or Python (connected to the webserver).
Can I run Shell commands from a webpage (e.g. html)?
I mean is it possible to use nginx without script languages by shell
scripts?
Posted at Nginx Forum:
> **[Running Shell Script from html webpage](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,217975,217975#msg-217975)**
>
> I have a Nginx installed on Linux (Ubuntu or Centos) without any scripting language such as PHP or Python (connected to the webserver). Can I run Shell commands from a webpage (e.g. html)? I mean is it possible to use nginx without script languages...
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**Author:**  [@etrader](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/etrader)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 12:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-shell-script-from-html-webpage/213662/2 "2011-11-08T12:23:24Z")
Hello, well you can use a web anti-framework, that will enable you to
use
shell power. You can also use a RC templata to place the code into the
html.
Here is a link to werc [http://www.werc.org/](http://www.werc.org/)
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**Author:**  [@etrader](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/etrader)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-shell-script-from-html-webpage/213662/3 "2011-11-08T15:14:07Z")
I’am doing this with Debian Squeeze & fcgiwrap installed. I’ve seen
fcgiwrap present in Ubuntu.
Example script (Must be executable)
#!/bin/sh
# -_- coding: utf-8 -_-
NAME=`"cpuinfo"`
echo “Content-type:text/html\r\n”
echo “”
echo “$NAME”
echo ‘’
echo ‘’
echo ‘’
echo ‘’
echo “
```
”
date
echo “\nuname -a”
uname -a
echo “\ncpuinfo”
cat /proc/cpuinfo
echo “
```
”
Run it here [http://newhost.qaq.me/cpuinfo.sh](http://newhost.qaq.me/cpuinfo.sh)
Also using this as an include file, not restricted to only shell
scripts.
location ~ (.cgi|.py|.sh|.pl|.lua)$ {
gzip off;
root /var/www/$server\_name;
autoindex on;
fastcgi\_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi\_params;
fastcgi\_param DOCUMENT\_ROOT /var/www/$server\_name;
fastcgi\_param SCRIPT\_FILENAME /var/www/$server\_name$fastcgi\_script\_name;
}