[WEB4LIB] Redirect html->cgi?

[Vladislav S. Davidzon]

Why not use a link and the meta automatic reload/redirect tags?

-vd

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> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of lydia
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 4:30 PM
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> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Redirect html->cgi?
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> Has anyone attempted to redirect users from a single html page to a
> single cgi script? Can it be done? (We're running Apache 1.3 on
> Solaris.)
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> I've tried out the intuitively obvious theories already, with these
> results:
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> 1. symlink from "moveme.html" to "moved.cgi" --
>    The link works fine, but the webserver displays the destination
>    file as html, rather than handling it as a cgi script. 
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> 2. ScriptAlias from httpd.conf -- 
>    ("ScriptAlias /path/moveme.html /path/moved.cgi")
>    I had a theory that it would be possible to tell the server that
>    in this single instance, it could execute an html document as cgi. 
>    Since ScriptAlias is designed to specify an entire directory,
>    rather than a single filename, it's unsurprising that this just
>    returns our 404 error message.    
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> 2. Redirect from httpd.conf --
>    ("Redirect /path/moveme.html http://server.foo.edu/moved.cgi")
>    Of course, ScriptAlias is also designed to work with entire
>    directories--so this is essentially the same solution as the symlink.
> 
> It begins to seem like I'm just requesting functionality that can't
> exist. Any intrepid souls out there already faced this? 
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