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Eric, You'll have to enable mod_rewrite for Apache and figure out how to create the appropriate url rewriting rules (basically, regular expressions). Here's a site that gives some examples: http://www.the-art-of-web.com/system/rewrite/1/ -Harrison On 7/30/07, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 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 > -- Harrison Dekker Coordinator of Data Services Doe/Moffitt Libraries, UC Berkeley