From: Sam Gentle <sgentle@...>
Date: 2007-02-06T11:42:42+09:00
Subject: Re: A ruby-web (but not rails) question

On 2/6/07, itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to do something very simple. My web dir structure:
>
> home/
>     index.html
>     cgi-bin/
>         login  (a ruby script)
>
> I have a form/button in index.html, and when submitted the action is to run
> cgi-bin/login. I have the necessary #! header etc.
>
> I want the login script to return the same index.html file (except for one
> minor substitution), but it should appear to the client browser to come from
> home/ so that relative links will continue to work, rather than from
> cgi-bin.

This sounds like a job for .htaccess.

You can set your DirectoryIndex to point to index.rb (or login, or
whatever) instead of index.html, so when people go to
http://yoursite/home they'll be served the result of your ruby script
instead.

You may also need to enable CGI in your home directory (using AddHandler).

http://www.thejackol.com/htaccess-cheatsheet/ should have examples.

Sam