Edit html - Noob here

Getting apache to automatically edit the html of served pages

[splatcat]

Hi and thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

I am new to apache and am trying to get my server to do what i want will little luck.

I am running windows server and the latest version of apache and I what I want to do is have apache look at the html being served for all pages and do a simple txt find and replace on specific strings.

I think there are things out there which do what I want but after some reading I still don;t fully understand them or know if getting apache to do what I want is going to work.

Thanks
Stuart

[wilderness]

simple txt find and replace on specific strings

Perhaps I've misunderstood?

For what reason would you do this online and within your server?

There are a multitude of "html editors" that will do what you desire and all work offline.

[splatcat]

The edits to the html have to take place after the SSI have been processed and the final html has been generated. I have been looking at mod_perl, and making some sort of filtering script.

Is this the right direction, I maybe out of my depth here [I have never programmed in perl before :P ]

[wilderness]

After the final html has been processed, download the files to your local machine, run the html editor, then re-upload the new files.

Don't you keep backup copies of your website (s) locally?
If not?
That's something that needs immediate resolution.

I've no clue about perl.

[splatcat]

Thanks for your responses but you are clearly misunderstanding what I am trying to do.

I am using mod_proxy on the server and redirecting a local web resource to a remote system. I need the served files to be edited on the fly, almost like web filtering.

the website which needs to be edited is being created on the fly by a closed source application and is impossible to edit.

I may be looking for help in the wrong forum.

I may be a noob but
"Don't you keep backup copies of your website (s) locally?"
I am not that bad :P I think this is a non trivial problem

[jdMorgan]

Look into Apache 2.x output filters, as they seem to be what you're looking for.

If the 'errors' you are trying to edit have to do with back-end redirects, look at the mod_proxy settings; Since you haven't said specifically *why* you need to edit the output, I can only assume that something is "wrong" in the HTML output by the script, and provide a few general hints here...

Jim