Re^2: From php to perl + template solution

[Nik]

Thanks. Can't i just use mod_rewrite telling the webserver NOT TO run html pages the user clicks because these are my actual templates waiting to be rendered and instead redirect those requests to index.pl script to calculate the counter data, render the tempalte and display it?

[scorpio17]

I was thinking of something like this:

URL a user enters:

http://your_server/page1.html

mod_perl maps this into:

http://your_server/cgi-bin/myscript.pl?temp=page1.html

or even:

http://your_server/cgi-bin/myscript.pl/page1

(this is how it will look if you use CGI::Application. I suggest get this working first, then add a .htaccess file in your cgi-bin directory to add the mod_perl mod_rewrite stuff afterwords.)

The script reads in template "page1.html", figures out the counter value, inserts it, and displays the page.

All the template files should be in a special directory, not under the document root, so there's no way a user can point their browser to the "real" page1.html.

update: corrected typo