A ruby-web (but not rails) question

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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. The following almost works, except it is based out of cgi-bin.

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
home_page = IO.read "../index.html"
print home_page

Any simple solution?

Thanks!

2

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).

the jackol’s den - Mikhail Esteves should have examples.

Sam

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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.