Re: [LUG] Apache directory cgi mapping

[Pete Hatton <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Probably a quick and dirty way to do it.. Have a look at the
DirectoryIndex directive in the apache docs, and stick that in a .htaccess
file in the dynamic script directory.

Pete Hatton
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, jody salt wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I run an apache web server on RedHat 7.1 what I want
> to know is:
>
> Is there any way of mapping directorys to cgi
> programs?
> e.g
> I want http://foo.bar.com/info/ to access real
> documents in my /foobar/info/ directory
> BUT!!
> I want http://foo.bar/dynamic/ to access my
> dynamic.cgi script.
>
> What this dynamic.cgi script will do is output
> formated records etc.. from my MYSQL database as
> webpages.
>
> EG
> lets say I have a record structure thus:
> userdata(username, webpage_data)
> we will treat user name the key field
>
> the following url:
> http://foo.bar.com/dynamic/james/
> will output the webpage_data field were username
> equals 'james'.
>
> I hope you have got the picture
>
> Any help would be much apreciated
>
> Regards Jody Salt
> (In a couple of months time I will have server that
> needs hardening to hackers, which I will give as a
> hacking project to people who want to test there
> skills; providing they tell me how they got in etc so
> I make the nessarserry patches)
>
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