Internal redirection w. Apache

[Masali]

I want to do an internal redirect. If a user types in eg.

http://www.domain.com/hello.html

in the browser, I want Apache to request

http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/script.pl?hello.html

instead. I know this is possible with
RewriteRule ^(.*)$

http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/script.pl?$1

But I want it to be invisible to the surfer. The URL that was typed in the browser (

http://www.domain.com/hello)

should still be visible for the surfer.

So, I don't want Apache to send a 302 Moved but a standard 200 OK and just doing an internal redirect.

Also if possible, I only want to do this when the "file" does NOT exist. Eg. if

http://www.domain.com/hello.html

is called and the file "hello.html" exists it should load as usual.

Please advice and thanks in advance

Masali

 

[craigmcl]

Apologies if I'm missing something obvious; I've been up a long, long time.

Is there a reason you can't use mod_perl's internal_redirect_handler?

Basically, you'd set up a module as a PerlTransHandler in your httpd.conf, and that module would have some way of knowing what "real" file you want to return for what user-request (You can do it with hashes, db tables, shared mem, etc), and does a internal_redirect_handler($realfile).

Hope this helps,
CM

 

[Masali]

I am not an expert in this matter, so please explain a bit more. This could be what I am looking for. Is it possible to make this from a htaccess to?

Thanks in advance

Masali