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Running EXE files in linux apache like a CGI

I have an old system which connects to my custom hardware that I will be delivering simple HTML out of.

If I wanted to waste electricity, I’d have two computers constantly running and then I can test my pages on the fly.

Instead, I want to do all my work on one computer my linux system.

Currently I can serve CGI pages through Apache in Linux and those are compiled C programs.

But because the target computer has Quick Basic and I compile EXE files through that language, I can do the same on my linux computer through DOSBOX.

The nice news is I can execute my Quick Basic program on a unix commandline via the linux WineConsole command and the output prints correctly despite the warning messages printed to stderr.

The sad news is I can’t find a way to load my EXE as if it was part of a URL in a browser and have the same contents shown in the browser itself as what I saw on the commandline.

My only guess is to find a specialized apache module that can allow me to associate extensions with programs but I don’t know of such a module.

Is there another way one can run an EXE file in linux apache and have the standard output contents dumped to the screen?

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    Have you tried using dosemu instead of dosbox?

    If dosemu is able to output to stdout, you can wrap it inside a shell script that will be your CGI

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    If you aren’t using DOS specific routines in your basic code, you might be better of compiling it as a linux executable using a basic compiler for linux.

    You might want to look into this. I know there is a compiler called FreeBasic which should be able to compile QuickBasic code to a linux executable.

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