I have a website that's currently built up in Perl scripts with no actual HTML pages. My goal is to have the domain name (http://gateway/ for instance) map to a specific CGI script. I tried adding:

Redirect /index.html "http://gateway/cgi-bin/nph-login.cgi"

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But obviously, this is a redirect and that's not what I want (for weird reasons - basically the login script can send a redirect and two redirects in a row mess up the browsers being used in certain circumstances).

Is there any way to make an index.cgi (or rather nph-index.cgi) in the root of the Apache documents folder be automatically executed when someone hits the site? Thanks!

In reply to Getting Apache to execute a CGI for the index page by LukeyBoy

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