Re: [Ids-devel] alternate path question

[Ashley M. K. <as...@pc...>]

Phillip Tiburcio wrote:

> The question I have is this: currently the way to get
> to my ids site is to hit
> http://servername.org/cgi-bin/ids/index.cgi.
>
> I tried to simplify the path by using a scriptalias
> command in httpd.conf:
>
> ScriptAlias /album/
> "/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/ids/index.cgi"
>
> I read through the faqs/documentation but I couldn't
> find how to properly create an URL alias. What is the
> proper way to accomplish this?

    None of the images show up because it's taking the last bit,
'index.cgi' and tacks everything else on it, so at some point, your
internal paths become
/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/ids/index.cgi/index.cgi?mode=...etc. - Try
removing the 'index.cgi' from it.

    --

    IDS can be placed just about anywhere really.  What you need to do
is allow CGI scripts to run from where ever you install it.  For
example, instead of putting it in your /cgi-bin/ folder, drop it
outside, and put it in a folder under your /htdocs/ directory.  Say,
make a new one called album under /htdocs/, and drop IDS in there.

    Your physical path would then be /usr/local/www/htdocs/album/ and
you should be able to hit http://your.host/album/ (you have to delete
your script alias you added, and you need to allow ExecCGI in the
/album/ folder - read the Apache docs for that)

    In my case, I have IDS running completely outside of my main Apache
folder.  It's a vhost all by itself.  http://photos.yeehaw.net
translates to /home2/apache/photos.yeehaw.net/htdocs/ while Apache
itself is under /usr/local/apache/  (besides, with my IDS being so
large, I had to move it onto another drive all together)


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