[WEB4LIB] Redirect html->cgi?

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Interesting, when I pressed Get Msg on my mail client it went to this
message after loading new messages from the mail server as if this were
a new message.  It wasn't until after I sent the reply that I noticed
this one is from back last August.  My apologies.

Thomas
lydia wrote:
> 
> 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.)
> 
> I've tried out the intuitively obvious theories already, with these
> results:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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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