As others have mentioned, Nginx doesn't support CGI.

Please see

http://wiki.nginx.org/Configuration#CGI

for a couple different options.

Cliff

On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 08:25 -0500, jason@monsterjam.org wrote:
> hey folks, ive been running apache for years but now trying to use nginx. I have nginx and php(with fastcgi)
> working fine, but whenever I try to bring up my web page that has a perl cgi on it, it just downloads the script
> instead of executing it.. I cant figure out how to make it work right.. basically heres the config that I have
> for it in my apache conf
>
> ScriptAliasMatch ^/blog/?(.*) /var/www/localhost/htdocs/blog/blog.pl/$1
>
> and
>
> <Directory "/var/www/localhost/htdocs/blog">
> Options +Includes
> <FilesMatch "blog.pl$">
> Options ExecCGI
> </FilesMatch>
>
> when do I need to do to get nginx to properly execute the perl cgi?
>
> thanks/regards,
> Jason
>
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