RewriteRule help

[shifter480]

Hi,

I am having some trouble using a perl cgi script to perform some desired functionality. My code is as follows:

Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/NORTH_090518(.*) /C:/Projects/441/Source/nph-xredirect.cgi/$1 \
[T=application/x-httpd-cgi,L]

In my understanding this code should run my Perl cgi script which is as follows:

#!/tinyperl
#
# CGI program used to pipe data to BestInfoReplace.exe
#

# Print a message
print 'Hello world.';

$| = 1;
print $url = $ENV{'PATH_INFO'};

open FILE, ">URLPath.txt"
or die $!;
print FILE $url;
close FILE;

system("InfoReplace.exe");

If I run this from the command line it works.

However when I run this script from my application which uses apache it seems to redirect but says the page is forbidden:

HTTP 403 Forbidden

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Joe

 

[smah]

Well, I'm terrible with rewriting & regular expressions. However with regard to how apache handles rewriting, I suspect that I can offer some insight into your first problem. The purpose/outcome of a successful url rewrite would be the same as if you directly type the new/desired url in the address bar of the client web browser. With that said, what happens when you type C:/Projects/441/Source/nph-xredirect.cgi/[small]whatever[/small] into your client side web browser address bar? My guess here is that the client web browser is not the same machine as the web server.

 

[elgrandeperro]

Agree. The destination must enable ExecCGI, else I could point my rewrite to any arbitrary URL and have it exec as a cgi!