Hi there

I'm in a bit of a pinch here...
I have created rewrite rules for a GLinks website that I moved recently. The rules concerning the pages in the www/ directory is working fine,
but the rules rewriting url's containing cgi-bin/ are not affected. Here are two examples:

Rule 1: directory/(.*) www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Rewrites www.mysite.com/directory/Detail/34.html to www.mysite.com/Detail/34.html (this is working)

Rule 2: cgi-bin/smallmotor/(.*) www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/$1 [R=301,L]

Should rewrite www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/smallmotor/search.cgi to www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi (not working - reports: The requested URL /cgi-bin/smallmotor/search.cgi was not found on this server.)

Any ideas of what is going on here?

Thank you

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cgi-bin is often a directory not inside www, so the htaccess rules set in www aren't applied to the cgi-bin. You probably need to create a separate set of htaccess rules in your cgi-bin.

Adrian

Ahhh.... nice.

Thanks, that is working now. It is interesting though how these rewrites function.
For example, I tried creating a file, .htaccess, in the cgi-bin directory, but it didn't work.
Here is its contents:



Then I changed it to the following:


It seems that one should keep in mind the current directory of the .htaccess file when the conditions are constructed...

Thank you

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Sacrifice is not about what you lose,
it is about what you gain in the process.