17. Using Interchange with Apache
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:08:37 -0700
From: Bill Randle <billr@exgate.tek.com>
To: minivend-users@minivend.com
Subject: Re: [mv] no /cgi-bin/storename/
On Sep 6, 5:13am, Victor Nolton wrote:
} Subject: [mv] no /cgi-bin/storename/
} ****** message to minivend-users from Victor Nolton <ven@pragakhan.com> ******
}
} I've noticed some of the catalogs I've done are not indexed well with
} the search engine, though most pages have meta tags, there is a
} robot.txt file and so on and so forth.I assume it's due to the
} cgi-bin in the url (not sure).
}
} I'd like to start having stores be like
}
} http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html
} http://www.yourdomain.com/ord/basket.html
} instead of
} http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/yourstore/index.html
} http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/yourstore/ord/basket.html
}
} how do you accomplish this? I assume it can be done somehow.
In addition to using mod_minivend, previosuly suggested, you can do this
with Apache rewrite rules in the VirtualHost directive for yourdomain.com:
<VirtualHost a.b.c.d>
ServerAdmin support@mainhost.com
DocumentRoot /home/httpd/html/yourstore
ServerName www.yourdomain.com
ErrorLog logs/yourdomain-error_log
CustomLog logs/yourdomain-access_log common
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/httpd/cgi-bin/"
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ /cgi-bin/yourstore/index.html [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/yourstore/index.html [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/index\.html$ /cgi-bin/yourstore/index.html [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/yourstore/.* - [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) /cgi-bin/yourstore/$1 [PT,L]
</VirtualHost>
I just did this for a client and it works quite well (as long as you're
using a fairly recent version of Apache as your webserver).
-Bill