Old CGI scripts often had bugs. A request like ?view=../../../../etc/passwd could expose the server. Modern security patches may explicitly block view= requests containing indexframe . Check your server logs ( /var/log/apache2/error.log ) for 403 or 500 errors.
PHP is universally supported and more secure: view indexframe shtml
: This represents a specific directory on the embedded web server of the network device, which holds the files necessary to display the user interface. Old CGI scripts often had bugs