DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

rcblackwell wrote:

Based on information I've been able to gleam from this forum I think I need to install the php-cgi package in order to use cgi scripts with lighttpd. Is my assumption correct?

There's no php-cgi package. Also, you need php only if you want to run PHP scripts.
To run basic CGI scripts, enable the cgi module in /ffp/etc/lighttpd.conf

server.modules              = (
...
                               "mod_cgi",
...

Next, assign interpreters to your CGI scripts' file extensions. The lighttpd.conf has examples for perl scripts (replace usr with ffp!).

cgi.assign                 = ( ".pl"  => "/ffp/bin/perl",
                               ".cgi" => "/ffp/bin/perl" )

If you want .cgi to be shell scripts, change this to:

cgi.assign                 = ( ".pl"  => "/ffp/bin/perl",
                               ".cgi" => "/ffp/bin/sh" )

Restart lighttpd, and create example CGI scripts. Here's an example shell script 'test.cgi':

echo -en "Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n"
set

Here's an example perl script 'test.pl':

print "Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n";
print "Your IP address is ", $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'};