execute CGI on Apache document root

rahmad · 03-18-2010, 05:50 PM

hi

how can I run CGI scripts that are without extensions under the documentroot??

i can not use ScriptAlias on the documentroot, and I applied the following but i didnt work as well. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/cgi.html

i can run .pl scripts but i cant run any script without extension :S
ofcourse all files are executable on the fs....plz help

smoker · 03-18-2010, 06:15 PM

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mis...e.html#content

rahmad · 03-19-2010, 06:38 AM

i went through the link you sent, but can you give me more hint?

smoker · 03-19-2010, 07:28 AM

rewrite the visible links to point at your scripts.

eg
http://www.yoursite.com/hello actually points at http://www.yoursite.com/hello.pl

Edit

An example .htaccess file to allow execution of perldiver.pl in the main www root directory, and to be accessed by just http://www.site.com/perldiver

Code:

Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl
RewriteEngine  on
RewriteBase    /
RewriteRule    ^perldiver$  perldiver.pl

You can give it any name you want :
http://www.site.com/fred

Code:

Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl
RewriteEngine  on
RewriteBase    /
RewriteRule    ^fred$  perldiver.pl

rahmad · 03-20-2010, 01:44 AM

Thanks Smoker.

Ok now I need to rename all scripts to *.pl.

but now my question is, is there any way to execute scripts that are without extensions under the docmentroot and without using ScriptAlias??

bathory · 03-20-2010, 04:40 AM

Quote:

ut now my question is, is there any way to execute scripts that are without extensions under the docmentroot and without using ScriptAlias??

You can use:

Code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[html|php]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
RewriteRule (.*) - [H=cgi-script]

Os course in the 1st RewriteCond line you have to add any file extensions that you don't want to be treated as scripts.

Regards

smoker · 03-20-2010, 09:46 AM

And how does that not match directories ?

bathory · 03-20-2010, 11:59 AM

Hi smoker,

I was showing OP how to use rewrite rules to run scripts without extensions from docroot.
If someone wants really to do this, he must also take care of any kind of files that might be called from a web page (like png, jpg, css, etc) and of course of subdirectories. A more complete example should be:

Code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[html|htm|php|png|jpg|gif|js|css]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule (.*) - [H=cgi-script]

Regards

rahmad · 03-20-2010, 04:14 PM

bathory thank you very much

It is working now