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[lordhuh]

hi i am setting a web site to have forms. for querky reasons with uploading cgi's to the server i want to do it to an apache server. is there any way without configureing dns to have say

http://mysite.com/cgi-bin/

point to somewhere and

http://mysite.com/

poin to a different server. im 90% sure my answer is in dns but im hoping there is an answer in apache
Karl Pietri
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[gerald]

I belive what you are looking for is URL Redirection. Check out the Alias module for apache:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_alias.html

Regards,
Gerald

 

[lordhuh]

mabey this will help clarify it. i have a web site spaned across 2 servers and i want the site to appear (to the user) to be just one site.
Karl Pietri
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[lordhuh]

oh yeah and i only can adjust one servers settings.
Karl Pietri
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[gerald]

You would only need to change the settings on one server.
Whichever server the DNS is pointing to for mydomain.com, you will setup an alias to redirect a URL to the other server.

So if the DNS is pointing to the server that does not have the cgi bin, the you create an alias to point mydomain.com/cgi-bin/ to 12.34.56.78/cgi-bin where 12.34.56.78 is the IP number of the machine that will hold the cgi-bin

If the DNS is pointing to where the cgi-bin is, then you just create an alias to point mydomain.com to 78.56.34.12 wheere 78.56.34.12 is the IP number of the machine without the cgi-bin.
Im not aware of any other ways to do what you want to do with Apache. If one of the servers is running a different web server then that might be a different story.

Regarads,
Gerald

 

[lordhuh]

thanks that answers it perfictly. thanks
Karl Pietri
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