Re: [gentoo-server] apache-2.2.4-r6

[Korthrun]

On 6/8/07, Brad Plant <bplant@×××××××××.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:57:25 +0200
> Luca Longinotti <chtekk@g.o> wrote:
>
> > Korthrun wrote:
> > > It seems to me that when I setup .cgi and .pl via an addhandler
> > > statement such as:
> > >
> > > AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
> > >
> > > apache will try to execute anything containing .pl or .cgi.
> > >
> > > If i have a file, foo.pl for example.
> > > http://localhost/foo.pl will execute (good)
> > > now if I move it to foo.txt
> > > http://localhost/foo.txt will show me the contents of the file
> > > (good) now if I move it to foo.pl.txt
> > > http://localhost/foo.pl.txt will try to execute it, as it will if i
> > > canme it foo.cgi.txt.
> > > calling it foo.php.txt will still print it out, but the new lines
> > > are stripped etc, it looks like it's been run through and spat out
> > > php.
> > >
> > > Is this intended behaviour? It kind of seems like something gone
> > > wrong.
> >
> > Yup, it is intended, check the doc:
> >
> > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_mime.html#addhandler
> >
> > "Once that has been put into your httpd.conf file, any file containing
> > the .cgi extension will be treated as a CGI program."
> >
> > The keyword here is "containing", not "ending with", which may be
> > surprising, but it is so. :)
>
> I think AddType is what you're after.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brad
>
>
It seems so. Thanks for that.

No clue how I missed this last night:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_mime.html#multipleext

I always associated an extention with the end of the file name, but
that's kind of silly when you think about it.

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