[users@httpd] Interpreting Perl in a Context Root

[Richard Crawford <rc...@unexmail.ucdavis.edu>]

Since I have Cold Fusion and JRun on my server, Cold Fusion pages are 
referred to as:

http://www.oursite.com/cfmx/cfpage.cfm

The cfmx context root must be present for Cold Fusion to be interpreted.

The downside of this is that referring to Perl scripts within pages (such 
as when referring to CGI scripts written in Perl) doesn't work with just 
relative URL's.  So, for example, if I have a form written in html located at:

http://www.oursite.com/cfmx/myform.html

where the "action" attribute of the "form" tag is "mycgi.pl", then when the 
form is submitted, all I see is the source code for mycgi.pl.

I can work around this by referring to the cgi script in myform.html with 
the absolute URL, leaving out the context root:

< form name="the_form" action="http://www.oursite.com/mycgi.pl" >

However, since I have hundreds of .html pages with forms that refer to 
mycgi.pl, going through and changing them all to refer to the absolute url 
of the script is not really a viable solution, especially since the each 
instance of myform.html refers to a different instance of mycgi.pl.

I can't seem to figure out how to make Apache interpret the Perl scripts 
appropriately when the context root is included in the URL, since the 
context root is not a part of the directory structure.

I have been struggling with this problem for weeks.  Any ideas or hints 
would be greatly appreciated.


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