How do I get Apache to execute a CGI script in the middle of a URL?1. You'll have to enable mod_rewrite for Apache and figure out how to create the appropriate url rewriting rules (basically, regular expressions).... 2. We use a bunch of URL rewrite rules to solve this issue.... 3. One way to deal with this is using rewriting rules but IMHO there is a cleaner solution to this, which is something we have used in the past. Keep your mylibrary CGI in your favorite location, and then attach a custom handler to it, using the following paradigm: <Location /mylibrary> SetHandler mylibrary-handler Action mylibrary-handler /cgi-bin/mylibrary.pl virtual </Location> (here I assume that your cgi script is at http://example.com/cgi-bin/mylibrary.pl). Using this setup, any URL that starts with /mylibrary will cause apache to call your cgi script, with the proper path_info filled in. A similar approach is to have the script actually reside in /mylibrary but declare it as such by mapping the /mylibrary url to the cgi handler, but I find the above approach cleaner since you don't have to mix your scripts and docs. See the apache docs for more details.
Thank you for the prompt replies. Counting a previous message, there were three "votes" for using mod_rewrite and one vote for the use of an Action handler. Like Perl, there seems to be more than one way to do it. I have initially played with the handler technique and have had some success. Now I have to go back to the RESTful manual and see about turning my content into "resources". 'More later, maybe much later. -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame
