Will this work once an app is deployed?

Targets Web
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To test my web app I am calling it from my browser using http://127.0.0.1:8080/, but I am concerned that this only works locally. Do I need to name the CGI file to launch my deployed web app/

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Typically you would access your deployed cgi web app with something like

http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/mywebapp/mywebapp.cgi

where mywebapp is the folder where it is located and mywebapp.cgi is the cgi file.

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[quote=116811:@Richard Corlett]Typically you would access your deployed cgi web app with something like

http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/mywebapp/mywebapp.cgi
[/quote]
Wow!, so this means that if I have 50 or so links pointing toward http://127.0.0.1:8080/, do I have to change them via your suggestion before deployment?

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127.0.0.1 refers to localhost so you can use it to access something on the same machine, like your web app running as a debug for example. The deployed cgi is typically accessed through a domain name so that it can be reached through the Internet. Yes, it does sound as though you would need to change the links before deployment.