Mailing-List: contact users-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: users@httpd.apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of tw@dionic.net designates
 81.2.78.41 as permitted sender)
Message-ID: <4C36E56F.7020907@dionic.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:01:35 +0100
From: Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
 rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100527 Mnenhy/0.8.2 Thunderbird/3.0.5
 ThunderBrowse/3.2.8.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: users@httpd.apache.org
References: <4C36FCBC.B953.0092.0@atriummc.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4C36FCBC.B953.0092.0@atriummc.nl>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Re: Execute CGI (or FastCGI or PHP) on missing
 target file

On 09/07/10 09:41, Joost Heer, de wrote:
>> Specifically, what I'd like to do is to be able to execute one named CGI
>> (probably under FastCGI) where Apache cannot find an existing target
>> file (ideally with named extensions like .html but that's not so
>> important) after URL-path translation phase.
>
> ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/template.cgi
>
> See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/custom-error.html for environment variables you can use in the CGI.
>
> Joost
>
>

Doh. Why didn't I think of that - seems very simple and elegant :)

I've just read it through and I don't see any problems (I presume I can 
stop it sending a 404 code - I'll look into that).

Jut have to toss up between HTML::Template and Mason now.

One immediate advantage to using a smart templating system is I can hide 
the page menus from the Google Spider which should improve the indexing 
of the site (right now, Google guesses the main target page pretty well 
but lists lots of the other pages too if the keyword is a menu item).

Thank you very much Joost :)

Cheers

Tim

---------------------------------------------------------------------
The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project.
See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info.
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
   "   from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org