No cgi-files at all right?

[feldon23]

Not always true. Some hosts do require PHP scripts to be installed in the cgi-bin directory.

BobsDiscountWebHosting.com?

[steven s]

I can only say that in my two installations, I have nothing in the cgi-bin directory.

[Steve Machol]

BY DEFAULT, vBulletin does not need to bee located in your cgi-bin directory, as it is a PHP based script.

Not always true. Some hosts do require PHP scripts to be installed in the cgi-bin directory.

[nexialys]

you really want to make this guy freak, damn...

BY DEFAULT, vBulletin does not need to bee located in your cgi-bin directory, as it is a PHP based script... even if your host have installed PHP as a module, you can install vBulletin in its own directory without any cgi-related action...

this client ask this because he had piracy on his own cgi-based website ... guys, if you can't answer correctly, don't answer at all... this is not a feud here.

[xjuliox]

WOW!

The original poster wanted to know if vbulletin installed files in his cgi folder when he installed his copy of vbulletin.

I just did a fresh install of vbulletin and it didn't installed any files in my cgi folder.

[Zachery]

Yes.

[Gomjaba]

Unfortunately it's a lot more common than that - roughly 1-5%.

My hoster is running php5 in cgi modus .. is that what you mean ?

[Steve Machol]

People vBulletin running as CGI: Less than .001%?

Unfortunately it's a lot more common than that - roughly 1-5%.

[feldon23]

People vBulletin running as CGI: Less than .001%?

[Scott MacVicar]

Steve is correct, the extension is not important. You can run PHP with a .cgi file suffix as long as you have

#!/usr/local/bin/php at the top

It depends what version you downloaded from the members area, by default it is .php

[roosevelt]

CGI are two things one is Common Gateaway Interface and another CGI known as perl script files. vBulletin is coded in PHP. Don't worry about dealing with cgi-bin folder (i hate it too).

[Steve Machol]

vbulletin uses php not cgi, end of.

Please don't give inaccurate information. As per my previous posts any script can be CGI depending on the server.

[mentalrz]

vbulletin uses php not cgi, end of.

[Steve Machol]

Well then I've answered this the best I can. Any script, including all the vB scripts, can be 'CGI files' depending on the server.

[Daniel Lindberg]

Don't know how to be more specific...