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Author: Kevin Buettner
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Subject: Perl question
On Jul 10, 10:52am, Kimi A. Adams wrote:

> I am not sure if this is the appropriate way to ask this. So, we are doing
> something like this for the
> URL: www.unitywave.com/testm.cgi?post/username/filename.html But we
> would like it to look like
> this: www.unitywave.com/testm/post/username/filename.html In trying to
> run this from the server: perl testm.cgi, it works. It also works when
> you move testm.cgi to testm and run the same command using just testm. But
> when we go to the website, using that testm instead of the .cgi? it shows
> the program rather than the output like it does on the server.
>
> We want to do this so that a path is shown to the customer, rather than the
> extensions and characters. However, I am at a draw as to whether this is
> httpd.conf that controls this or if it's the program that is running, i.e.
> perl or cgi.


You'll need to tweak the web server configuration file (httpd.conf or
the like).

BTW, what's wrong with something like:

    www.unitywave.com/testm.cgi/post/username/filename.html
                           ^^^^


?

Kevin