Israel, Use mod_rewrite to redirect requests to a directory to the url of the cgi page, including any URL variables that you want. Chris On Wed, April 9, 2008 2:37 pm, Israel Brewster wrote: > I have a .cgi script that I would like to use as the DirectoryIndex > for a location on my web server, preferably with the trailing ?abc= > argument attached (although without would work too). I thought I might > just be able to put the .cgi file as the DirectoryIndex directive for > the directory, but that didn't work, failing with an "attempt to > invoke directory as script" error. So what would be the easiest way to > make this work? I don't need to hide the .cgi path/arguments from the > end user or anything, i'd just like to be able to simply type > www.myserver.com/abc > and have the cgi > (www.myserver.com/abc/somescript.cgi?someargument=somevalue) > load. Thanks. > > ----------------------------------------------- > Israel Brewster > Computer Support Technician > Frontier Flying Service Inc. > 5245 Airport Industrial Rd > Fairbanks, AK 99709 > (907) 450-7250 x293 > ----------------------------------------------- > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx