in reply to Fundamental cgi-question

Here is a simple index.html example that redirects a user's request for index.html to your script: 
<html>
 <head>
  <script language="javascript">
  <!--
   location.replace('http://server.name/your/script');
  // -->
  </script>
 </head>
 <body>This site requires javascript.</body>
</html>

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