Using CGI for your front page.

samgold has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question but everyone here is so smart I think someone will be able to help me.

I am running apache and mod_perl on windows 2000. I want to use CGI as my front page, index.html, but I am not sure how to do that? Right now I am doing this:

<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Test Page</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=/cgi-bin/index.cgi">
</head>
</html>
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I got the second meta line from someone elses code here. It runs the cgi script and it works fine but I want to be able to skip this step. I am new to html, apache and cgi so any help would be greatly appricated and any pointers on where to look would be great also.

Thanks,
Sam

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Re: Using CGI for your front page. by stephen (Priest) on Apr 16, 2002 at 02:54 UTC
I believe you'll find what you need with DirectoryIndex and CGI Outside of ScriptAlias Directories. stephen	[reply]
Re: Re: Using CGI for your front page. by dws (Chancellor) on Apr 16, 2002 at 03:09 UTC
The default DirectoryIndex should already contain an entry for index.cgi. As long as there is not a file in your home directory that appears earlier than index.cgi in DirectoryIndex, and as long as you have `Options +ExecCGI` in your .htaccess (or in httpd.conf), you should have a working .CGI as your default home page. I do this both under Apache and IIS (where the configuration steps differ a bit), and it works fine.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Using CGI for your front page. by JayBonci (Curate) on Apr 16, 2002 at 03:04 UTC
You can also include any script to run inside of something with mod_include (it may come with apache by default). `<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/pathto/myscript.cgi" -->` [download] --jb	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Using CGI for your front page. by samgold (Scribe) on Apr 16, 2002 at 13:51 UTC
Thank you so much for the help. Thanks, Sam	[reply]