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Tim Hodson wrote: > In terms of versioning and user readability (you never know someone > may want to bookmark a url :) ), you could perhaps try a url that > looked something like this using two examples above: > > http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/ws/v1/facets/ How do I get Apache to execute a CGI script in the middle of a URL? I have been reading RESTful Web Services in an effort to learn how to create a "good" Web Services interface to MyLibrary. Similar to the URL above, it advocates against (simple/traditional) name/value pairs specified in a GET request. Instead it advocates for the fuller use of HTTP methods such as GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, and OPTIONS in combination with path_info data used for input. In such an environment an HTTP GET request would retrieve data. PUT might create data. POST might edit data. DELETE would... delete data. Etc. I can live with this even though it is not the way I would have done it on my own. Thus, one of my URL's might look like this: http://example.edu/mylibrary/resource Sent as a GET request, the response would be an XML (or JSON) stream of data listing resource names or IDs . The following URL, sent as a PUT request might create a resource: http://example.edu/mylibrary/resource/Wikipedia All of this is fine and dandy. Writing a CGI script (server application) that looks at the HTTP method and parses the path_info (/ resource/Wikipedia) and branches accordingly is rather trivial. My problem is getting Apache to know that /resource/Wikipedia is intended to be input for the script named mylibrary. When I pass something like the URL directly above to my script Apache comes back and says, "File not found" because it is looking for a directory/file named Wikipedia. How do I get Apache to execute the script named mylibrary? I could specify the URL like the following, but it is ugly: http://example.edu/mylibrary/index.cgi/resource/Wikipedia What am I doing wrong? How do I need to configure Apache accordingly? -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame