ScriptAlias directive

Purpose

The ScriptAlias directive creates a virtual directory on your server. Any accesses to that virtual directory will be satisfied by returning the output of a CGI server script in that directory.

Syntax

ScriptAlias virtual path

virtual is the translated location of the script directory.

path is the full pathname of the directory which contains server scripts which fulfill the request.

Note: You should always place a trailing / after ScriptAlias directives which reference directories, to prevent similar entries from conflicting with each other.

Several ScriptAlias directives may appear in the configuration file.

File

srm.conf

Example

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/

This would cause requests such as /cgi-bin/foo to be satisfied by running the script /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/foo.

Thus, if someone requested /cgi-bin/a-script, the server would run /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/a-script and send its output to the client.

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