The procedure for CGI access on other servers will vary.
Most sites soon progress beyond static HTML pages.
To provide dynamic content, or content that is generated automatically or changes from visitor to visitor, you'll need to use CGI scripts. This is not a complete tutorial on how to write and debug CGI scripts, just a guide to the specifics of getting scripts running on our server system. For script source code and tutorials, have a look at sites like Matt's Script Archive or Script Search . A CGI script is essentially a program running on the server. As such it is quite possible to create a script that either maliciously or as a result of unintentional coding errors causes serious problems for the server it runs on.