- From: Jeff de la Beaujardiere <delabeau@iniki.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:27:12 -0400
- To: GK@acm.org
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Graham Klyne writes: > Referring to the CGI example from your earlier posting: "/cgi-bin/..." > isn't it whatever lies at the end of the "..." bit (i.e. something the > server recognizes as a CGI script) which triggers the server into CGI > invocation, rather than the "/cgi-bin" prefix? Either a prefix like /cgi-bin or suffix like .cgi may be relevant, depending on the server config. Apache uses a ScriptAlias directive to inform the server that the directory referenced by /cgi-bin contains executable files rather than documents. In that sense, it is the /cgi-bin prefix which triggers the server. However, you can configure Apache to recognize scripts stored in other directories by declaring a handler for a particular file extension, and in that case it is the .cgi suffix which triggers the server. --Jeff
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