Question

I want users access the cgi script for searching tags in my blog, but the script is in another directory. Is it possible to let RewriteRule to access to another directory? I tried my own method but its not working so far.

  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule ^tag/([^/]*)/$ /var/www/html/script/search.cgi?tag=$1 [L]

When a user access blog.com/tag/apple/ search.cgi searches for tag “apple”

My blog’s aboslute pass is

/var/www/html/blog/

Search script is here

/var/www/html/script/search.cgi

Answer 1

Change your code this:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# forwards to script/search.cgi?tag=foo if URI is tag/foo
RewriteRule ^tag/([^/]*)/?$ script/search.cgi?tag=$1 [L,NC,QSA]

Make sure you add this code to your .htaccess file in /var/www/html directory.