Question

Using Apache 2, I want to configure my website so that any requests to the domain are forwarded to a Python CGI script. Basically, if the user goes to http://www.example.com i want the cgi /cgi-bin/cgi.py to execute. If the user goes to http://www.example.com/index.rss I want /cgi-bin/cgi.py to be executed with /index.rss as the argument. I have tried various combinations of ScriptAlias and Rewrite and cannot seem to get them in the right relationship.

Answer 1

(not sure on the correct procedure with answering ones own question – but…)

Looks like I was having conflict with ScriptAlias and RewriteRule. In the end the solution was to use AddHandler to create a relationship then use mod_rewrite to pull everything into the CGI. And RewriteCond to avoid catching /resources/ and /media/. My VirtualHost now looks like this:

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/resources/.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/media/.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi$1 [L]

Thanks for your help guys.