redirect to cgi exe

[Tracey]

hi

i have a problem which i dont seem to be able to work out.

I need to be able to redirect my root web address url to a script within my cgi-bin. eg:

http://blah.foo.co.nz

would go directly to

http://blah.foo.co.nz/cgi-bin/etime.exe

i have managed to get that to work via :
ScriptAlias / "c:/apache/cgi-bin/etime.exe"

however all my other relative links to the root directory, icons, .js files etc no longer work.

is there anyway i can redirect users to this application without loosing my relative paths within my application?
I also need to be able to enter "

http://blah.foo.co.nz/cgi-bin/another.exe"

to gain access to another program running on this server.

i tried also "redirect" but this caused some major endless looping.

can anyone here help me? I use Apache 2.0.36 on windows 2000




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[sleipnir214]

You might use mod_rewrite.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/etime.exe [R,L]

This will redirect the browser to your executable.

If you do not want the browser's URL to change, and if you have the proxy module available on your installation, you can use:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/etime.exe [P,L]

This will cause Apache to invoke the executable internally and provide the output to the user without moving the target of the browser.

For more information:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html

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[Tracey]

thanks for answering sleipnir,

I havent tried your solution, because i devised a work-around. (javascript in default.htm to relocate window)
also because as yet i have not managed to successfully include any modules (i tried for some time with php but gave up).







Tracey
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