Re: [cobalt-users] Failure to conform to CGI standards ???

["Michelle A. Hoyle" <michelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 23:49:33 -0600
From: "Michael D. Schleif" <mds-resource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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> NameVirtualHost 216.234.189.108
> <VirtualHost 216.234.189.108>
> ServerName www.helices.org
> ServerAdmin site99
> DocumentRoot /home/sites/site99/web
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^216.234.189.108(:80)?$
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^www.helices.org(:80)?$
> RewriteRule ^/(.*)                      http://www.helices.org/$1 [L,R]
> RewriteOptions inherit
> AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /home/sites/site99/users/$1/web/$3
> # AddHandler chiliasp .asp
> # AddHandler chiliasp .asa
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
> AddHandler cgi-wrapper .cgi
> AddHandler cgi-wrapper .pl
> AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
> AddType    text/html     .shtml
> </VirtualHost>
>
>
> We wonder, what is the purpose of this section:
>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^216.234.189.108(:80)?$
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^www.helices.org(:80)?$
> RewriteRule ^/(.*)                      http://www.helices.org/$1 [L,R]
> RewriteOptions inherit
>
> What would happen, if this section was *not* present ???
>
> Or, another thing to try would be to combine these:
>         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^216.234.189.108(:80)?$
>         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^www.helices.org(:80)?$
> to:
>         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}
> !^(216.234.189.108(:80)?|www.helices.org(:80)?)$
>
> Tera-Byte responds:
>
> ``we use standard cobalt raq servers and their configuration if your not
> satisfied with this current configuration  you can either contact cobalt
> networks about getting it changed (we cant change it)or you may exersice
> your 30 day money back guarantee''
>
> What do you think?


I do my hosting of entire Raqs at Tera-Byte -- first with a Raq2 and 
now with a Raq4.  What you've shown us is a standard Cobalt 
configuration for a virtual site probably on a Raq4.  Since I run a 
Raq4 myself, I can tell you that, overall, I've not had that many 
problems with CGIs using CGI.pm, so I suspect your fears are mostly 
groundless.   Tinkering with Apache probably voids the warranty and, 
unless you're renting the *entire* machine from Tera-Byte (in which 
case you can do what you want), they're not going to muck around with 
the Raq for you (although they can).

If you believe that there is a problem with the standard 
configuration for the Raq, then you'll have to chat with the people 
at Cobalt about it.

Michelle



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