On Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:06:24 -0500, Michael Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> David Emery wrote:
> > On Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:08:50 -0800, "David Christensen" <[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>I'm sure this has been asked before, but I can't seem to find the question
> >>or
> >>the answer -- how do I direct all incoming requests to a single CGI script
> >>on
> >>Apache 1.3?
> >
> > With mod_rewrite, something like this should do it.
> >
> > RewriteEngine On
> >
> > # If you want it to redirect only in the case where there is no real
> > # file or directory at the requested location, then un-comment the
> > # following two lines
> > ##RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> > ##RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> >
> > RewriteRule ^(.*) myscript.cgi
>
> While this is cool, I'm not sure that it wouldn't cause other problems. For
> instance, all bad links etc, would not result in a 404, but rather be
> redirected
> to your script which will then probably emit a 500 error since it's not
> prepared
> to handle a request for /non_existant.gif.
Hey, he said "all requests" ;) Good point, though - I hadn't thought
of that.
I should have added the caveat that I haven't actually used this myself.
> Maybe instead of checking for the existence of the file, maybe you should
> check
> it's type, or extension.
>
> > There might also be a way to do something similar to this without
> > mod_rewrite.
>
> You could write a custom perl handler and do the redirection, etc yourself.
> But
> as far as I know, this needs to be done at the apache level (ie, using
> mod_perl,
> mod_rewrite, httpd.conf etc) and can't simply be done at the perl level. So if
> you don't have access to the apache running (ie, shared hosting) then you're
> out
> of luck.
I was thinking along the lines of it maybe being possible by
using/abusing some regular Apache config param like "script alias" or
"directory match". I just didn't have time to look it up - I'm sure
the original questioner can read the Apache manual as well as I can,
but the mod_rewrite thing was something I came across recently that
looked interesting.
Both the mod_rewrite and the maybe-possible Apache config things can
be done through .htaccess files which are sometimes available in
shared hosting environments.
Dave
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