17. Using Interchange with Apache
Slightly modified article posted to the old minivend-users mail list. Minivend-users is now interchange-users.
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:08:37 -0700 From: Bill Randle <firstname.lastname@example.org> To: email@example.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 <firstname.lastname@example.org> ****** } } 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 email@example.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 ^/.*images/.* - [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