hey, i just need a little help with some cgi stuff. i just wanted to know if i need to change the extension of my pages to .cgi or whatever if i use any cgi coding on a page. Im kinda new to using cgi, and all i wanted to do was make a cgi counter using a script.

thx, java dude

It's up to your ISP, it's all in apache directives. Most will be .cgi, some allow .pl aswell (they shouldn't really but that's my opinion)

For a counter, that's sometimes done with SSI (server side includes), when using a PERL/CGI counter (assuming you mean to use PERL).
As long as SSI is allowed on your server, it's a matter of including a tag that calls (and executes) the CGI script, usually located in a dedicated area like 'cgi-bin'. to make an SSI work, you may have to name the page it exists on 'shtml' instead of 'html', to let the server know to parse it for the include(s).

well u could make a php page and make a simple counter using php