Easily create a CGI server


Installation

- Install Node.js
- Install easy-cgi

``
npm install -g easy-cgi
`

Example (Using Bash)

Create a directory for your app whith your CGI executable files.

App directory

`
app
└---hello.sh
`

app/hello.sh

`bash
#!/bin/sh

Headers are written first. The special "Status"

header indicates the response status code

echo "Status: 200"
echo "Content-Type: text/plain"
echo

Followed by a response body

echo "Hello World!"
`


Give execute permissions to the file
`bash
chmod +x hello.sh
`

Then start your CGI server

`bash
cgi
`


Access the address http://localhost:8080/hello in the browser

Routing

The routes are created automatically by file name

Example:

- For the app/hello.sh file, the route is /hello
- For the app/foo/bar.sh file, the route is /foo/bar
- For the app/index.sh file, the route is /
- For the app/foo/index.sh file, the route is /foo

> If you create a app/src directory, it will be ignored

$3

Dynamic routes are created adding underscore in file name or directory

Example:

- For the app/users/_id.sh file, the route is /users/
- For the app/_foo/bar.sh file, the route is //bar

Get request values

You can access the request values ​​through the REQUEST environment variable in JSON format

The REQUEST environment variable looks like

`json
{
"body": {},
"params": {},
"query": {},
"headers": {},
"files": {}
}
`

> No sessions are supported yet

Static files

To serve static files, create a static` directory