Unfortunately no. You see FoxPro
is an odd beast. It'll allow you to run a script/program without
the extension. So from within FoxPro you can type "do c:\temp\appname"
and it'll look for appname.prg, then appname.app. So the developers
who wrote these apps are requesting pages like /cgi/login?foo=bar causing
FoxPro to look for the login.prg or login.app. So if I use a rewrite
rule like that it'll break if the code is a .prg instead of an .app and
unfortunately they used both all over the place. Ideally I would
make the developers rework their apps but unfortunately we've let the developers
go and are maintaining the apps with the understanding that they won't
be modified.
Brian Mearns <mearns.b@xxxxxxxxx>
03/09/2009 02:47 PM
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On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:40 PM, <REllis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Hello all, I have an old Windows web system I'm trying to migrate
from an
> ancient version of Netscape Enterprise Server to Apache 2.2.x. Most
of
> the site is static content and I have that working correctly. However
> part of the site is also using another ancient technology called FoxWeb
> which is basically an old way of putting FoxPro applications on the
web. I
> need to be able to setup Apache to send all requests that come in
with a
> URL like /cgi/login?foo=bar to the executable
> c:\FoxWeb_Test\foxweb\foxweb.exe. It should be noted that each
"page" is
> actually a FoxPro executable such as login.app or login.prg, however
the
> extension isn't included in the URL's request. \
>
> Here's what my web structure looks like:
>
> c:\FoxWeb_Test # Root of the web
server
> c:\FoxWeb_Test\http # Static
html files and graphics
> c:\FoxWeb_Test\foxweb # FoxPro web applications - when a request
for
> anything in here is made c:\FoxWeb_Test\foxweb\foxweb.exe needs to
be
> called as a CGI with the request information
>
> Here's what I have for a virtual host so far, and it's already serving
> static content correctly.
>
> <VirtualHost *:8080>
> DocumentRoot "C:\FoxWeb_Test\http"
> ServerName testaccount.harte-hanks.com
>
> <Directory "/">
> Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks
> AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
>
> Adding the following gets it to work for .app files, but I need a
fix that
> allows all files regardless of extension to go to foxweb.exe.
>
> AddHandler foxweb-script .app
> Action foxweb-script "/cgi/foxweb.exe"
>
> ScriptAlias /cgi/ "C:/FoxWeb_Test/foxweb/"
> <Directory "C:/FoxWeb_Test/foxweb/">
> AllowOverride None
> Options None
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> I've also tried adding "SetHandler foxweb-script" to the
foxweb directory
> directive but that gives me an error stating that too many internal
> redirects were made.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
You should be able to just use mod_rewrite to rewrite incoming
requests for "^/cgi/([^.]*)$" to "/cgi/$1.app". I think
that will work
as long as none of the cgi scripts have a dot as part of their name
other than .app. If it does, you'll need to get more creative with
your regex, or use a negated rewrite cond to only apply the rewrite
when the URL doesn't already end in .app.
Does that help?
-Brian
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