gnuCOBOL HTML output using Apache CGI

Submitted by Dickens A S on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 03:06

Run COBOL using Apache Server

COBOL compiled to an EXE in windows can be placed in Apache cgi-bin folder or any other folder where ExecCGI is enabled

Enable CGI module in Apache

LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so

Write COBOL code "gnucobolcgi.cob"

       identification division.
       program-id. gnucobolcgi.
       environment division.
       input-output section.
       data division.
       working-storage section.
       01 newline              pic x     value x'0a'.

       procedure division.

       display
           "Content-type: text/html"
           newline
       end-display

       display
           "Hello From <b>COBOL</b>"
       end-display

       goback.

       end program gnucobolcgi.

Compile gnuCOBOL

$ cobc -x gnucobolcgi.cob

Copy the "gnucobolcgi.exe" to cgi-bin folder

Load the URL in any browser

http:// localhost /cgi-bin /gnucobolcgi.exe

HTML Output in your browser

Hello From COBOL

 

 

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