I know this might sound crazy, but you ming consider a custom module
that responds to cgi-bin and decides what to do from there. Or one
that responds to cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl. Then you don't have to
work out funky rewrite logic, and you can decide what to do from there.
I've done some pretty crazy custom modules.... even wrote one once
that generated dynamic css :)
On Nov 10, 2009, at 8:08 AM, Nancy Wichmann wrote:
I am getting lots of requests like this:
http://www.example.com/index.php?q=cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl&file=/
alpha/beta/gamma/rage_prevention.shtml
The file argument is a valid page on our old site and is itself
redirected with a ReWriteRule in .htaccess. However, cgi-bin/
printOriginal.pl does not exist and I have no idea what it was
supposed to do (well, I can guess print the page). We get lots of
these requests for different pages. I have tried a simple rewrite
rule and a URL alias to prevent the 404 processing, but neither has
fixed it.
Is it possible to design a rewriterule that essentially discards
the "cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl" and just serves up the requested
page (well, after its own rewrite rule has worked)? So this would
become
http://www.example.com/index.php/alpha/beta/gamma/
rage_prevention.shtml
Nancy E. Wichmann, PMP
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin
L. King, Jr.
