[Xitami] want virtual host to point to an executable

[Ayhan Tuncer]

Marc Doigny wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > It works, but i still need a method to get rid of the '?'
> > > adsl (fixed ip): <http://web.verfaillie.com/invasion>
> > > cable: <http://web.verfaillie.be/?invasion>
> > > (same directory, different servers, for some sort of load balancing between
> > > adsl and cable)
> >
> >I'm not sure I understand you correctly. Do you wish to redirect a
> >certain document
> >to a certain other server/document and again other documents to other
> >server/document123
> >or are all the requests regardless of requested document to be
> >redirected to the same url?

> These are two servers, one connected to a adsl connection with fixed ip,
> the other is a server connected to a cable network without fixed ip.
> Both servers are using the same directories for the files to be served (not
> for the config of course).
> The adsl connection is always online but slow, the cable is faster but has
> no fixed ip.
> 
> >What does the query string parameter "invasion" represent? does the cgi
> >executable
> >have to use this parameter to put together the new url it will redirect
> >the user to?

> invasion is the name of a directory.
> The redirect executable gets the ip address of the cable server and creates
> a page containing
> 
>     STDOUT "<html><head><meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0; url=http://";
>     STDOUT ipaddress$;
>     STDOUT ":20800/";
>     STDOUT ENVIRON$("QUERY_STRING");
>     STDOUT "'></head></html>";
> 

> The query string is what the executable gets from Xitami and is what follow
> the question mark in a normal request. (The example given above is a
> working one)
> 
> It is possible to create one executable for each directory to be served,
> but if there is a different way to do that, i would prefer it.
> 
> Marc


If you want to avoid cgi-aliases
the user would have to type in the addressbar: 
http://server/executable/parameter
and the ENVIRON$("PATH_INFO") would give you    /parameter   .

You could not avoid an extra directory there because there is no such
thing as a
null "".exe . You definitely need a script name with or without
extension.
User would get a 404 if only  http://server/parameter .

The above doesn't look like Perl but I suppose it would be so:

    STDOUT "<html><head><meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;
url=http://";
    STDOUT ipaddress$;
    STDOUT ":20800";                   # No slash at end
    STDOUT "/";                        # optional
    STDOUT executable$";               # optional
    STDOUT ENVIRON$("PATH_INFO");      # Has a slash at beg.
    STDOUT "'></head></html>";


Another alternative for creating one executable per directory=parameter
could 
be this:

DomainDefaults.cfg:  ( no cgi-bin alias but script=document alias )

[Cgi-alias]
    Parameter1=C:/Xitami/DomainCgi-bin/executable.exe
    Parameter2=C:/Xitami/DomainCgi-bin/executable.exe
    Parameter3=C:/Xitami/DomainCgi-bin/executable.exe

and script:

    STDOUT "<html><head><meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;
url=http://";
    STDOUT ipaddress$;
    STDOUT ":20800";                   # No slash at end
    STDOUT ENVIRON$("SCRIPT_NAME");    # Has a slash at beg and will
give
    STDOUT "'></head></html>";         # the alias path - no slash at
end


I do not use this alias example for a parameter via the script name but 
you might perhaps find it workable.

Ayhan Tuncer