That's actually a nice workaround since I'm only experimenting locally, but I think I'll just give in and add links from a static html page to any cgi-bin. Right now I'm just experimenting with CGI because it is available and if my experiment were to be used later the end location is extremely outdated. I find it challenging to experiment such that the intersection of all locations I might work on use roughly the same technology without buying something.
> On April 21, 2019 at 1:51 PM Jack Rosenthal <jack at rosenth.al mailto:jack at rosenth.al > wrote:
>
>
> I vaguely recall doing something like this a while ago as a hack. There
> may be a better way, but IIRC this worked for what I needed:
>
> Make a file in your cgi-bin like default-index-handler.cgi... for
> example I wrote mine in bash:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> # FIXME: handle security cases
> # (what happens if .. in REQUEST_URI)?
> INDEX_SCRIPT="${DOCUMENT_ROOT}/${REQUEST_URI}/index.cgi"
>
> # does an index.cgi exist and executable?
> if [[ -x "${INDEX_SCRIPT}" ]]; then
> exec "${INDEX_SCRIPT}"
> else
> echo "Content-Type: text/html"
> echo
> echo "<H1>No index file exists</H1>"
> fi
>
> Then you'll need to set DirectoryIndex to have your custom handler at
> the end:
>
> DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm ... /cgi-bin/default-index-handler.cgi
>
> And maybe it'll just work. I think this approach is really hacky, and
> you'll need to fix the FIXME above, but this is a rough outline of an
> approach.
>
> You may think this is a little bit out of style, so if there's a better
> way to do this, please someone else chime in. Then again, CGI scripting
> went out of style a few years ago too... =)
>
> Jack
>
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