Htaccess redirect / to cgi-bin/cgiscript.cgi not working

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1st of all the disclaimer: this is my very first "meeting" with .htaccess, and I'm not a sysadm, never was, but the guy in the neighborhood, who used to set up the machine.

So now I have to set up one friends cgi (pyblosxom) based site (on freehostia).

I have a directory tree like this:

mysite (path on freehostia is: /home/www/sitename)
|-cgi-bin
||-cgiscript.cgi
|-pybloxsom-installation
|-data

My problem: I want to redirect all incoming request to http://mysubdomain.freehostia.com/ (the root, and if possible http://mysubdomain.freehostia.com/data/ and http://mysubdomain.freehostia.com/pybloxsom-installation/ ) to http://mysubdomain.freehostia.com/cgi-bin/cgiscript.cgi .

Could someone explain how to do that? All my tries lead to infinite redirections.

Best Answer

Try to put in a .htaccess file in the mysite directory :

RedirectMatch ^/$ http://mysubdomain.freehostia.com/cgi-bin/cgiscript.cgi
RedirectMatch ^/data/ http://mysubdomain.freehostia.com/cgi-bin/cgiscript.cgi
RedirectMatch ^/pybloxsom-installation/ http://mysubdomain.freehostia.com/cgi-bin/cgiscript.cgi

it might not work if your hosting provider doesn't allow it.

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Try this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} mysite\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://mysecondsite.com/ [L,R=301]

If you don't need to check for the old domain (for example, if the directory where your .htaccess is placed is only used by the old domain) you can remove the second line.

Redirect FROM cgi-bin to home page

If you have access to the config for your virtual host:

Redirect 301 /cgi-bin/link.cgi http://www.mysite.com

If you don't have access to the configuration for your virtual host, then you're probably out of luck since your web server config is likely to contain something like this:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    ...
</Directory>

...which means that .htaccess files will be ignored in the cgi-bin directory...

As a last resort, you might try stuffing the following into link.cgi:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Location: http://www.mysite.com\n\n";

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Redirect FROM cgi-bin to home page

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