On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:49:18PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 10:08 PM +0100 10/9/07, 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 ....>? > > My first guess would be to try <Directory /cgi-bin/pyblosxom.py>, and my > second would be to try <Location...>. Of course, as others have said, the > script can do it itself. No the script (or static HTML) can't do it itself, the apache AddDefaultCharset overrides it. -- Chris Green
