[ale] Apache redirects

[Jerry Z. Yu]

It'd be more secure to avoid processing .cgi file in just any dir.
I guess the same should go to .php. I'd feel more comfortable just using
HTML's own redirect capabilities for this purpose, more portable/secure.

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Cleveland Flowe wrote:

#Gene Matthews wrote:
#>
#> I have an apache question.  It's hopefully easy if you know apache well
#> (I don't).  I have a cgi prog in cgi-bin.  What I would like to happen
#> is when someone goes to the website via http://whatever.com/  the  cgi
#> program in ../cgi-bin/cgiprog gets run to produce the page.
#>
#> I tried doing this in /var/www/html/:
#>
#> ln -s ../cgi-bin/cgiprog index.html
#>
#> That didnt' work.  It produced a bunch of garbage.  I don't know much
#> (anything?) regarding url redirection, but is that what I should be
#> trying here?
#
#You could add index.cgi to your DirectoryIndex, assuming that
#"AddHandler cgi-script .cgi" was issued in your config.
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