I have a legacy program that I need to run with the extension of .cgi (search.cgi), but I have re-written this code using PHP.
How do I tell Apache to reference search.cgi but make it run search.php?
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I have a legacy program that I need to run with the extension of .cgi (search.cgi), but I have re-written this code using PHP.
How do I tell Apache to reference search.cgi but make it run search.php?
Use the url rewriting mod of apache.
Somthing like
You can change search.cgi by ixsearch.cgi
Or more general
That will rewrite any url yourdomain.com/{some_scriptname}.cgi in yourdomain.com/{some_scriptname}.php (and rewriting the request GET parameter thanks to QSA clause)
the script name can contain any letter between a and z or numer or char like – or _ (ex tomato-juice). Plus it is case insensitive (thanks to NC clause)