Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Re: [Nms-cgi-support] Re: Counter Set-up

[Jonathan S. <gel...@ge...>]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Sam Smith wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> > It just occured to me that the HTTP_HOST wouldn't work because that will
> > always be the HTTP_HOST of the server that the counter runs on, then I
> > went to test what the environment of a CGI program run from an shtml page
> > on another host would look like and it wouldn't run ....  Upon reading the
> > Apache documentation I discover that for 'exec cgi':
> >        If the path does not begin with a (/), then it is taken to be
> >        relative to the current document.
>
> Unless the files are in a place accessible by all virtual hosts?
> Which, if we only wanted one copy of the script, they would have to be.
>
> Either way, encoding the Hostname in the name of the file is probably a good
> idea as it allows for multiple servers to write their counters to the same directory (and
> only have one dir writable by the webserver rather than more).
>
>

Ah, got ya, *virtual hosts* on the same server ... OK.

/J\
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