Ok here's the problem. after installing mod_perl I placed the script I wanted to run into the perl directory called it and all worked swimmingly.

The script is called by lots of clients on different web servers So I cannot easily change the location of the script to /perl/

An easy fix or so I thought was to rewrite the url using mod rewrite so that the server would look for the script in the correct directory (/perl/) rather than the requested directory (/cgi-bin/)

I inserted this into httpd.conf in the virtual server configuration
<code>#redirect mlserver requests to the faster mod_perl
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/mlserver.pl(.*) /perl/mlserver.pl$1</code>

Bonza it worked

But then I realised it was still running under CGI not mod_perl!

Now I cannot find a way to get the script running under mod_perl. CGI always takes over!
If I remove the shebang line the script fails
If I call it directly ie: server.com/perl/mlserver.pl it works correctly under mod_perl

How can I redirect an incoming request to the new mod_perl script?

I know this question is probably more an apache one, but I hope someone here can assist

I have tried renaming the script to mlserver.perl and the setting a new handler

ie: AddHandler perl-script .perl

but all that does is send back plain text, it doesn't execute mod_perl at all

Any ideas apart from telling all my clients to change the code on hundreds of sites?

In reply to Seems simple enough how do I redirect old cgi scripts to mod perl? by ManagedLinks

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