World Executable

[tovenkatesh82]

while going through some study matterial i found following text:
"Check the permissions on your cgi program. If it is not world executable then it won’t work."
can some one explain me what the text in bold applies to??

[miller]

Hi toven,

It's a unix thing. If you're not using unix than you don't need to worry about it.

Basically all files in unix have read, write, and execute permissions. These permissions are set on either the user, group, or other level. This is basically saying that everyone (user, group, and other) all must have execute permissions.

If you need to know more, ask in the unix forum, or just start reading up on unix yourself.

- Miller