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> While it should actually be a reasonable assumption, this is likely inaccurate both concerning public servers

Funny, I have personally worked at a company which ran their frontend on Mac Mini's. They weren't using CGI, but at least part of the assumption that people don't run Apple web servers is false.

Also, Mac supports running an Apache instance configured to run CGI scripts out of the box, correct? I haven't personally used it.

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> Also, Mac supports running an Apache instance configured to run CGI scripts out of the box, correct? I haven't personally used it.

OSX does have Apache configured by default to run CGIs out of /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables, but there is nothing in that folder by default, and you have to manually start Apache yourself, either with apachectl or via the System Preferences GUI.

    /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
    96:LoadModule proxy_scgi_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_scgi.so
    106:LoadModule cgi_module libexec/apache2/mod_cgi.so
    331:    ScriptAliasMatch ^/cgi-bin/((?!(?i:webobjects)).*$) "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/$1"

That's what I thought. And regardless of the manual steps required, it makes the stance of "nobody uses macs as web servers" completely untenable.

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