[ale] Apache redirects

Tue Nov 20 14:31:30 EST 2001

A simple javascript for this purpose:

index.html would contain:

<html>
<head>
<title>Load a cgi instead</title>
<script language=Javascript>
	location.href = "http://whatever.com/cgi-bin/cgiprog"
</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
</body>
</html>

Or with the refresh:

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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