The standard PRW.NET account setup places 'uncgi.cgi' on your cgi-bin directory. You should then place any scripts to be executed using UnCGI on the same directory. If you are using FTP, the hostname will be home.prw.net and the directory:

for personal accounts and

for business accounts. If you need to pass the fields of a form to a program called "myscript.cgi" via environment variables, set these form parameters:

Note that there is no "uncgi.cgi" subdirectory. UnCGI uses what is passed after the "/" on the URL to determine the script to be executed and any additional path information (if applicable). Attached is a basic form you can use an an example. To see how to use uncgi as a frontend to an operating system command press here. In case you want to test whether UnCGI is working properly, we have included a sample CGI script called 'env.cgi' that dumps your environment variuables. To use it, temporarily substitute the script you are running with:

To see how to use uncgi as a frontend to an operating system command press here. Note that if you want to use UnCGI embedded on a 'C' program, you will need its source code. If you have any questions or problems using UnCGI feel free to send us a message to support@prw.net .

This is an example of how UnCGI can be used to pass data from a form to a shell script or batch file. The example shell script will just echo the data back.