On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 02:27:15PM -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > Chris G 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 ....>? > > Hi Chris, > > Since the script is responsible for generating the document you may embed > the required charset within the <head> block and leave apache out of it. > > <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> > No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) That's the whole problem, the above setting is overridden by the apache server's setting:- AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 I want to know how to set up the apache configuration so that the above setting is what is used by default but in one directory hierarchy (which is actually a CGI script generating HTML dynamically) the default charset is ISO-8859-1. -- Chris Green
