[OT] Re: Hiding the .pl

[Robert Landrum <rl...@aol.net>]

You might want to consider downloading the 1.3.23 source for mod_speling and
using diff to see if they changed something.  It might be something simple
that can be changed and patched.  You also might be able to use the mod_speling
from 1.3.23 in 1.3.27 without any problem.

Given the relative simplicity of redirecting, I have to imagine that the
apache API didn't change very much in that regard.

Rob

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:04:31PM -0500, KIVES,BRUCE (HP-USA,ex1) wrote:
> 
> I have recently updated from Apache 1.3.23? to 1.3.27. Things are behaving
> differently, and I think the problem lies with mod_speling. Previously, if
> there was only one possible choice for a misspelled URL, it would just
> redirect it without asking. Now it asks every time. 
> 
> I used this feature to hide the fact that I was using a Perl program. For
> example: http://url/calendar/month/042003.htm called month.pl with
> PATH_INFO=/042003.htm, but to the browser it looked like there was a
> directory /month with a pile of static pages. I have several file.htm.pl
> that are called with file.htm and it worked fine.
> 
> Was there a change in mod_speling, or has something else happened? I don't
> think it is in the configuration. I copied over the old httpd.conf and after
> one or two minor changes, restarted Apache with the same problem. 
> 
> Is there another way of hiding the fact that I'm using a Perl program? If I
> rename the program from month.pl to month, it displays the program instead
> of executing it. The permissions are 755. I don't want to copy everything
> into /cgi-bin, because I do have some static .html in the same directory,
> which it then tries to execute.
> 
> Any other ideas on how to hide the .pl ?
> 
> OS revision: 
> HP-UX 11.11
> >From the error log: 
> HP Apache-based Web Server/1.3.27 (Unix) ApacheJServ/1.1.1 PHP/4.2.2
> mod_perl/1.27 configured
> -- resuming normal operations
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Bruce Kives

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Robert Landrum
Systems Programmer