On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 04:27:42PM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On 10/9/07, Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 04:13:11PM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > On 10/9/07, Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I am using the default apache 2.2 configuration in Fedora 7 as server > > > > on my home Linux box. It's all working much as I want but I have one > > > > issue that I can't find any really straightforward information about. > > > > > > > > How does one apply apache directives to web pages that are generated > > > > by a CGI script? > > > > > > > > I am running pyBlosxom (a python blog server) as a blog for personal > > > > notes, I want to set the default character set for only the blog pages > > > > to iso-8859-1 rather than the default utf-8. How do I do this? > > > > > > > > If it was just simple HTML then I'd do something like:- > > > > > > > > <Directory /the/directory/with/html/files> > > > > AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1 > > > > </Directory> > > > > > > > > (I think!) However I don't see how to apply this to files which are > > > > dynamically served by a CGI script, i.e. the URL is something like:- > > > > > > > > http://my.home.system/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.py/wiki/directory/file > > > > > > > > What (if anything) do I put in the <Directory ....>? > > > > > > > > > You can set ENV variables fron Apache config... don't know > > > how...Google should know. > > > > > How does that help? > > Your CGI script could then read the ENV variable and set the charset itself > The CGI *already* sets ISO-8859-1, the problem is that the apache server overrides the ISO-8859-1 setting and when viewed in a browser the charset defaults to UTF-8. What I want to do is to get apache to set the charset to ISO-8859-1 just for the one directory hierarchy. By default on Fedora 7 the apache httpd.conf file has:- AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 which sets UTF-8 for *everything* served by that apache installation regardless of what's in the HTML (however generated). -- Chris Green
