Hello, I am currently using a RewriteRule in htaccess to internally call a Perl script. It works very well for making URLs search engine friendly. For example, when a user goes to:

http://www.mydomain.com/Bill_Gates

They are looking at information about Bill Gates, but they are really calling a script like:

http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/display.pl?name=Bill_Gates

The RewriteRule looks like this:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)?$ /cgi-bin/display.cgi?name=$1 [L]

This works well, but the htaccess also treats "http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin" as a username rediecting it to "http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/display.cgi?name=cgi-bin".

How would I write the RewriteRule so that it calls the Perl script in all cases except when the username is "cgi-bin", "images", or some other common directory, while still treating names like "Bill_Gates" or "Steve_Jobs" as usernames?

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

In reply to using htaccess to call a perl script by keiusui

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