Linux Hosting : CGI Scripts

Abbreviation for "Common Gateway Interface". This is an interface standard which provides a method of executing a server-side program (script) from a web site to generate a web page with dynamic content. Scripts conforming to this standard may be written in any programming language that produces an executable file, but are most often written in Perl, Python, C, C++, or TCL

CGI Scripts
A program / script file executed on the web server in response to a user request. A CGI script is usually executed to process the data sent when a form filled in by a user is sent back to the web server.