my website accepts anyone to signup as member. i want my website to be able to display info on my member by accessing my website as below:<br><br> can't create a static html page for everyone who signup to my site. i wanted to make apache run a script whenever there is a request on ' to capture the membername and return a html page using data from my database.<br><br>how to tweak the conf files to make this work?
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How to execute cgi script upon http request on a certain directory
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One way to accomplish this is to edit your 'ErrorDocument 404' directive to point to the perl script you want to use. Since an error is generated whenever someone requests a directory that is not there, you can now redirect the user or build a dynamic page in response. Your CGI script can take the $REQUEST_URI or other http request variables and use it to pull a record from the database to build the user page in question. This method works great with PHP. I have not done this with Perl, however, so I don't have specifics.<br><br>You could also use a server-side include on a .shtml page to call the CGI script.<br><br>A possible drawback to this: I don't know how much processor time is used in 'Error 404' redirects. If your website is expecting a LOT of traffic, you might want to consider using mod_rewrite, which would provide a more elegant way of dealing with what is essentially 'faking' directories on your website.
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