Redirect using .htaccess or ?? ( kinda [OT] )

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:

Re: Redirect using .htaccess or ?? ( kinda [OT] )

B McKee wrote: I thought simply putting Redirect permanent index.* /cgi-bin/index.pl [ without mod_rewrite ] Redirect permanent / http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/index.pl But mod_rewrite would be best - as the OP stated... Over all this is a bad Idea... after a few more months of CGI