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My webpage bookmarks are extra long.. Can a CGI help shorten my links??
If someone would want to go to an exact pageon my website, they'd have to put a lot of parameters in the link to get there. For example, this is just to get to my home page:
http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/livescript.bat?co_id=LU/&LOC_NO=001&reqr_type=O&reqr_id=NEW%20CUSTOMER&AUTH_ID=&request_id=index
Most of my webpages share one part of the address all the time: &co_id=LU/&LOC_NO=001&reqr
Is there a way where I can create a script that I can give someone my link as http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/rewrite.cgi?request_id=index
What rewrite.cgi will do is transform that to the first link above, which is the real one. How would you do this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/livescript.bat?co_id=LU/&LOC_NO=001&reqr_type=O&reqr_id=NEW%20CUSTOMER&AUTH_ID=&request_id=index
Most of my webpages share one part of the address all the time: &co_id=LU/&LOC_NO=001&reqr
Is there a way where I can create a script that I can give someone my link as http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/rewrite.cgi?request_id=index
What rewrite.cgi will do is transform that to the first link above, which is the real one. How would you do this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
yes a cgi can help, as Tintin explained, but I'd use the web server to do the rewriting. Which web server do you use?
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I do have full control of the server. I am using Apache 1.3
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Should I put this in my VirtualHost section because I am using virtualhosting. Or should I put this in the <Directory> section for the location of the DocumentRoot?
Put in your VirtualHost section.
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It says page cannot be found. Doesn't look like its doing any rewriting. Copied exactly what you wrote up there. Even restarted apache. Any other settings that I have to turn on?
What URL did you specify in your browser?
Is mod_rewrite loaded? (check that it's uncommented in httpd.conf)
Is mod_rewrite loaded? (check that it's uncommented in httpd.conf)
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Yup my mod_rewrite is loaded. I am putting this in my browser:
http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/rewrite.cgi?request_id=index
which should reqrite it to this but doesn't:
http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/livescript.bat?co_id=LU/&LOC_NO=001&reqr_type=O&reqr_id=NEW%20CUSTOMER&AUTH_ID=&request_id=index
http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/rewrite.cgi?request_id=index
which should reqrite it to this but doesn't:
http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/livescript.bat?co_id=LU/&LOC_NO=001&reqr_type=O&reqr_id=NEW%20CUSTOMER&AUTH_ID=&request_id=index
Does it redirect at all, ie: does it redirect to the wrong URL?
silly question: you added exactly 3 lines each beginning with Rewrite ?
There're no line breaks in my posted configuration lines.
If it still fails, please check your error_log and access_log, and post messages if any (according this request).
There're no line breaks in my posted configuration lines.
If it still fails, please check your error_log and access_log, and post messages if any (according this request).
As written, I think it's looking for a script called rewrite.cgi, which I assume you don't have, hence the page not found errors...
I think ahoffmann's suggestion to use mod_rewrite was the correct approach and, after a bit of tweaking, likely resulted in the probelm being solved and thus the question abandoned. Shouldn't he get the points in the absence of any comment from the questioner?
A better way could be writing rewrite rules in .htacess file.
If you do want to use a CGI program, how many different parameters do you want it to accept?
In your example, you have
rewrite.cgi?request_id=ind
What other values for request_id can there be?