Default CGI handler in the webroot to handle all requests

[cyberxy]

I need to handle this url:

http://www.myserver.com/param1/param2/param3

What i need to do is have a script named something like index.cgi sitting in the webroot. I need this script to execute on any request to the server and i need the rest of the url to be passed as a PATH_INFO environment variable.

In other words, when the requested url is '

http://www.myserver.com/param1/param2/param3',

I want the PATH_INFO variable passed to the scrip to contan this: '/param1/param2/param3'. There is no directory named param1.

I would appreciate a suggestion on Apache configuration to be able to do this.

Thanks,
Boris

 

[tchatzi]

You mean that right now you have /param2/param3 in your webroot dir and you want to have web pages with a link like this:
<a href="/param1/param2/param3">My link</a> ?

If this is what you want then the only thing that you should do in your httpd.conf is:

Alias /param1/param2/param3 "/usr/local/apache/param2/param3"

You dont need to care how the PATH_INFO should look like, because everyone who browse your site will see (either on the links or on the address bar)

http://www.myserver.com/param1/param2/param3

If that's not what you want then explain us a little better, what is it that you want.


``The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.''
TIMTOWTDI

 

[cyberxy]

Thanks for a quick response.

Let me rephrase the question...
Basically, i am building a middle-ware server that redirects the users to proper destination, otherwise, the links that users currently have would be broken links.

Lots of users have hard-coded links such as this:
'

http://www.myserver.com/param1/param2/param3',

param1, param2 and param3 could be any value, those values are not foreseeable, i just gave param1, param2, param3 as examples.
I need to intercept all requests that come to the server '

http://www.myserver.com',

no matter what the rest of the URL contains.
Basically, it would be nice if a single script such as default.cgi would handle ALL requests coming to '

http://www.myserver.com'

and the rest of the URL ('/param1/param2/param3' in this case) would be available to the script as a parameter. The script would parse this parameter and decide on the proper place to redirect the user.

Thanks for your help,
Boris