[cobalt-users] Solution for Inserting file on the FLY

[Webmaster <webmaster@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:04 11/12/99 +0900, you wrote:
>>One of my customer want to add a Disclaimer info to
>>his members page automatically as a Server level.
>>
>>i.e. Without modifying every single page of his customers.
>>But end of their pages, this particular info should be added.
>>Specially to the first page of each customer -
>>say www.customer.com/~hiscustomerA/index.html
>>(It is a charity web site.)


Thanks for Kris Dahl and Douglas MacDougall, who responded my mail.
Now I have found my own solution for it.
Check out http://test.luxmi.net/test1/ for on line demo.
The solution follows end of this mail, may be useful to someone.

Best regards,
Babu P. Yogarajah

Webmaster <mailto:webmaster@xxxxxxxxx>
Luxmi Internet Services,
BGP Tecno Limited, 1 Waddon Court Road, Croydon CRO 4AN, U.K.
Tel.:+44 (0)8707 390 390  Fax.:+44 (0)8707 391 391

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Step 1
Create an .htaccess with at least the following contents and place it
under the web's root directory (i.e. www.your_customer.com/.htaccess
(you may omit Includes if you don't want SSI calls)

File: .htaccess

Options ExecCgi Indexes Includes
DirectoryIndex /cgibin/index.cgi

Step 2
Modify the following index.cgi and disclaimer.html (or footer.html)
according to your needs and place it under /cgibin/
(i.e www.your_customer.com/cgibin/index.cgi and
www.your_customer.com/cgibin/disclaimer.html

File: disclaimer.html (sample file)

<HR><CENTER><TT>Disclaimer info, this is coming from /cgibin/disclaimer.html</TT></CENTER>


File : index.cgi 

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# index.cgi file for Inserting file on the FLY
# By Babu P. Yogarajah <Babu.P@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
# v 0.1 <041299>
#
$request_uri = "$ENV{REQUEST_URI}";
$disclaimer = "disclaimer.html";
$index_file = "";
$localpath = "/PATH/TO/ROOT/OF/THE/WEB"; #<- change this according to your need#
#             # e.g. /home/sites/site27/web
#
#
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

if ($request_uri)
{
	if    (-e $localpath . $request_uri . "index.html" ) { $index_file = $localpath . $request_uri . "index.html";}
	elsif (-e $localpath . $request_uri . "index.shtml" ) { $index_file = $localpath . $request_uri . "index.shtml";}
}
else
{
	if    (-e "$localpath/index.html" ) { $index_file = "$localpath/index.html";}
	elsif (-e "$localpath/index.shtml" ) { $index_file = "$localpath/index.shtml";}
}

    
if ($index_file)
{
	open(INDEX, "< $index_file");
	while(<INDEX>)
	{
		print $_;
	}
	close(INDEX);

	open(DISC, "< $disclaimer");
	while(<DISC>)
	{
		print $_;
	}
	close(DISC);

	exit;
}
else 
{
	print "<H1>Directory Index Forbidden<\/H1>\n";
	exit;
}


Step 3
Test with any of your index.html or index.shtml files.
Also with empty directory then you should get
a error message like - Directory Index Forbidden -


FINAL NOTE: Feel free to use the above scripts and
don't blame me for any error in out come.
But any help needed write to me.
Also any one who developed further please let me know.