> On 07 Apr 2004 22:54:17 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B McKee) wrote: > > >Yeah, ok, this isn't completely on topic. Please humour me (or at least > >flame me politely). I need to redirect people to a perl-CGI script.... > > > >I have written a perl script that generates a series of active web > >pages. It's in the cgi-bin and works fine when accessed directly > >eg: > > > >http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/index.pl > > > >So, now I want to redirect anyone going to http://www.example.com > >to the above link instead. > > > >I thought simply putting > > Redirect permanent index.* /cgi-bin/index.pl > >in a .htaccess file would work - but it doesn't seem to do anything. > >Googling about seems to say it should work. > >My ISP does allow .htaccess files as I'm using them elsewhere for auth > >purposes. > > > >What am I doing wrong? Or what should I be doing instead? > > > >Input appreciated. > > > >Brian > > This is probably this simplest solution, although it may not be > the best. > > Why not just move your /cgibin/index.cgi to be your index.cgi? > > You can tell Apache to use index.cgi as the default page > > <IfModule mod_dir.c> > DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.php > </IfModule> >
That would make the index.cgi a directory index which means it would be printed as is rather than executed. You would also need to turn on ExecCGI and add a handler for .cgi.... At least that is my understanding.... http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
