CGI suggestion

decoux@moulon.inra.fr (ts)

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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 93 17:12:17 +0100
From: decoux@moulon.inra.fr (ts)
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To: john@math.nwu.edu
Cc: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu, john@math.nwu.edu, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
In-reply-to: John Franks's message of Tue, 28 Dec 1993 09:46:54 -0600 (CST) <9312281546.AA04784@hopf.math.nwu.edu>
Subject: CGI suggestion
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> This is something that was not clear to me from reading the spec.  I
> did not realize that the name "cgi-bin" was in any way special. Is,
> in fact, "cgi-bin" going to be a reserved word in http URL's?  If so
> then my objection about parsing is not well founded.  This is easy
> enough to parse -- it will still confuse some people though.  It also
> seems like a rather artificial restriction.  Am I correct in my
> understanding that this means that any subdirectory of cgi-bin is
> inaccessible to a client querying the server?
> 
> Could we clarify the CGI spec some more?
> 
> 1. Is "cgi-bin" a reserved directory name?
> 2. Can it be anyplace in the directory hierarchy?
> 3. Can a server have more than one cgi-bin?
> 

 No, "cgi-bin" is not a reserved directory name. For example with NCSA
httpd_1.0 you must define in "conf/srm.conf" ScriptAlias, like :

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 ...
# ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
# Format: ScriptAlias fakename realname
 
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/

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 You can define a ScriptAlias whith "/htbin/" for fakename (or any other
name), you can have several ScriptAliases directives, like :

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 ...
# ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
# Format: ScriptAlias fakename realname
 
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/
ScriptAlias /htbin/ /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/exec

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 Example if I want subdirectory "perl" and "csh" for script I must have
config file like this :

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 ...
# ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
# Format: ScriptAlias fakename realname
 
ScriptAlias /cgi-perl/ /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/perl
ScriptAlias /cgi-csh/ /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/csh

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 URL are :
  http://server/cgi-perl/script/extra_path
  http://server/cgi-csh/script/extra_path

 I can't have :
  http://server/cgi-bin/perl/script/extra_path
  http://server/cgi-bin/csh/script/extra_path


Guy Decoux