Title: Executing scripts in cgi-bin
Last modified: January 22, 2022

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# Executing scripts in cgi-bin

 *  [zardiw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zardiw/)
 * (@zardiw)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/executing-scripts-in-cgi-bin/)
 * My hosting company has the cgi-bin above the html folder….i.e. in the root of
   the site.
 * So if I wanted to execute a script in that folder, what would be the path, when
   I add custom html to a page?
 * “../cgi-bin/myscript.pl” doesn’t work.
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress
      topic

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 *  [corrinarusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinarusso/)
 * (@corrinarusso)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/executing-scripts-in-cgi-bin/#post-15278300)
 * Login to your host and open the file manager, or use FTP to see the full path.
   
   You could also SSH over to the server using a terminal if they allow ssh access.
   You could also try a tilde character: ~/ the tilde indicates home directory. 
   This is not a WordPress question.
 *  Thread Starter [zardiw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zardiw/)
 * (@zardiw)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/executing-scripts-in-cgi-bin/#post-15278336)
 * Never mind…….apparently that DOES work…..
 *  Thread Starter [zardiw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zardiw/)
 * (@zardiw)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/executing-scripts-in-cgi-bin/#post-15278348)
 * And in a way it IS a wordpress question……since when you add custom html to a 
   page, you need to know what the file paths are. Apparently a file in custom html
   is based on the web root/html folder….good to know.
 * z
 *  [corrinarusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinarusso/)
 * (@corrinarusso)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/executing-scripts-in-cgi-bin/#post-15278351)
 * The render for an html page is resolved by from apache, not WordPress.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/executing-scripts-in-cgi-bin/#post-15278351)
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