RemoveHandler .pl .cgi

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:30:22 GMT

My website will have a directory where I do not want CGIs to run. The obvious and wrong answer is to create an .htaccess file with "Options -ExecCGI", but that causes the errors "Access forbidden!" and "Options ExecCGI is off" when I try to access a .pl file. For the next obvious and wrong solution, I tried renaming the file to ".pl.txt". That did not work.

Given that I would like to serve .pl files as plain text, I tried "AddType text/plain .pl". RemoveType also does not work; note that the docs say that this is what you use for this case. RewriteRule \.pl$ - [T=text/plain] did not work; note, again, the docs say it should.

What did work was to add "RemoveHandler .pl".

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.htaccess variables

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:01:58 GMT

You can set variables inside an Apache .htaccess file. To copy directly from someone else's example:

 RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/category_abc/ 
 RewriteRule .* - [E=cat_id:1] 

 RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/category_def/ 
 RewriteRule .* - [E=cat_id:2]

 - The E= tells Apache we're creating a new ENV variable. 
 - The cat_id is the name of the variable we're creating 
 - The :x is the value of the variable (simple key : value syntax).

And from another example:

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^.*(de|es|fr|it|ja|ru|en).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [env=lang:%1]
Set lang var to URI
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /(.+)/(de|es|fr|it|ja|ru|en)/\ HTTP/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [env=lang:%2]

Environment variables are referenced as %{ENV:varname}. How they are used is another story. There are places you can't use them.

# Make a variable for RewriteBase
RewriteCond "/base_dir/" ^(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [E=RewriteBase:%1]
# Fails, causes an internal server error.
RewriteBase %{ENV:RewriteBase}

You can't do this either:

# RequestPrefix is a previously declared variable. 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^%{ENV:RequestPrefix}(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [E=RequestSuffix:%1]

A quick web search finds someone claiming that rewrite condition patterns are compiled before variables are interpreted.

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RemoveHandler .pl .cgi

.htaccess variables