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JMC
Asked: 2011-12-23 09:54:12 +0800 CST

Redirecting Pages that use cgi-bin in the url

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I'm having trouble redirecting urls that include cgi-bin in the path

Example:

http://website.com/cgi-bin/pc.storefront/en/product/product.aspx?iid=123

.htaccess
redirect 301 /cgi-bin/pc.storefront/en/product/product.aspx?iid=123 http://website.com/homepage.html

With that redirect the server returns: /cgi-bin/pc.storefront/en/product/product.aspx does not exist on this server error messaging.

However, if keeping everything the same and removing cgi-bin from the equation then the redirect works perfectly.

The server is apache2 using mod_rewrite. cgi is also disabled in httpd.conf. Are the any concerns related to redirecting cgi-bin?

apache-2.2 mod-rewrite

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    There is usually a default set of directives that come "out of the box" for more Apache configurations. This default often includes a AllowOverride none directive on the cgi-bin folder/alias. AllowOverride none means .htaccess files in the folder/alias will be ignored.

    Try updating the main config directive to AllowOverride Fileinfo

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