cgi_lab.txt +-- Lab - CGI Download echo_cgi.html and in same directory, create cgi-bin directory Download cgi_test.py, echo_cgi.py into cgi-bin directory. (git pull from uw_python will do all this automatically) In same directory as echo_cgi.html and cgi-bin directory, execute this: python -m CGIHTTPServer Point your browser at http://localhost:8000/cgi_test.py and observe the result then http://localhost:8000/cgi_test.py?message=Hello and observe the result then http://localhost:8000/echo_cgi.html fill out the form, submit, observe... If you have time, do the same on your VM If you dare, configure Apache on your VM to run CGI, try cgi_test and echo_cgi see apache_howto.txt