How to diplay .cgi script results as html pages

cgi to html

[interbuy]

I would like to have our cgi script output html pages as this website does.

As an example [test.com...]

Have it output [test.com...]

I wonder if mod_rewrite can make a global change and pick up the query?

Thanks for any assistance

[tombola]

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[Hissingsid]

Hi,

Put this in your root .htaccess file. (This often works on 'nix servers running Apache but only if your web host admin allows it in their httpd.conf file.)

<FilesMatch "^search$">

ForceType application/x-httpd-cgi

</FilesMatch>

Then you need something like this in your cgi script which you call search.cgi. This reads URLs in the form [test.com...]

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;

$q = new CGI;

$path = $q ->path_info();

#YOU MUST INSERT a regex test here to stop rogues sending dangerous characters into your script.

@path = split(/\//, $path);

#If you know @path always has three values in it you know that $path [2] is in this case cats and use that to match with a key in your database

Best wishes

Sid